Eight new releases this week! Three local films, a 3D remake, a horror movie, a french offering and two indies are out in the buenos aires theatres.

• TRES DESEOS. A sentimental drama exploring the dissatisfactions and possible escape routes of a couple turning 40 and their daughter. When the couple takes off on their own for a weekend in Colonia to celebrate her birthday, the wheels start turning. (Argentina, 2009.) Written and directed by: Vivian Imar and Marcelo Trotta - Featuring: Florencia Raggi, Julieta Cardinali, Antonio Birabent - PG13 - Running time: 97 minutes.

• EL TORCAN. A biopic of tango singer Luis Cardei, who passed away in January 2000. He was the ultimate bar and cantina singer, with a repertoire of tangos from before the 1940s. He hit the big time after he turned 50, recording three albums in only five years. (Argentina, 2009) Written and directed by: Gabriel Arregui - Featuring: Oski Guzmán, Claudia Disti, Rodrigo de la Serna, Fausto Collado, Alfredo Cardei - PG13 - Running time: 108 minutes.

• LA EXTRANJERA. An Argentine woman who left the country for Barcelona during the 2001 crisis returns to a small town in San Luis after her grandfather’s death. He leaves her a farm in his will, and she has to take the helm of the establishment. (Argentina, 2009) Written and directed by: Fernando Díaz - Featuring: Norma Argentina, Roly Serrano and Arnaldo André - G - Running time: 92 minutes.

• THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3D (EL EXTRAÑO MUNDO DE JACK 3D). On the 13th anniversary of this story by Tim Burton brought to stopmotion by Henry Selick (Coraline) comes a 3D version. A second chance for this beautiful horror/Christmas story on theatres, with iconic characters that will now jump off the screen. (US, 2008, in English) Directed by: Henry Selick - Written by: Tim Burton - Original voices: Catherine O‘Hara, Danny Elfman - G - Running time: 76 minutes.

• SAW VI (EL JUEGO DEL MIEDO VI). The sixth and final episode in the popular horror/slasher franchise: with Jigsaw dead, several open threads from the previous installments will tie up in a gory finale. (US, 2009, in English) Directed by: Kevin Greutert - Featuring: Costas Mandylor, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell. Tanedra Howard, Samantha Lemole, Athena Karkanis, Betsy Russell,  Mark Rolston - R - Running time: 89 minutes.

• THE BURNING PLAIN (CAMINO A LA REDENCIÓN). The directorial debut of Guillermo Arriaga, the writer behind Alejandro González Iñárritu’s trilogy Amores perros, 21 Grams and Babel. This time, multiple protagonists will struggle to rebuild their lives after the tragic consequences of a forbidden love. (US, 2009, in English). Written and directed by: Guillermo Arriaga - Featuring: John Corbett (I), Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger, Charlize Theron - PG13 - Running time: 106 minutes.

• FAUBOURG 36 (LA CANCIÓN DE PARíS). Springtime 1936, in a working class district in northern Paris. From the top of a hill overlooking the City of Lights, the Popular Front’s electoral victory seems to bring hopes for change – but not for three neighbours whose lives are wrecked by the closure of the theatre where they used to work. (France, 2009, in French). Written and directed by: Christophe Barratier - Featuring: Kad Merad, Clovis Cornillac, Gérard Jugnot - PG13 - Running time: 120 minutes.

• SHOTGUN STORIES. Drama and suspense in this story on a feud between two sets of half-brothers following the death of their father in rural Arkansas. (US, 2007, in English). Direccted by: Jeff Nichols - Featuring: Glenda Pannell, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Shannon - Running time: 92 minutes.