El extraño del pelo largo

Although it's a very interesting film about the begginings of rock/beat music in Argentina, it's mostly seen from an hegemonic and corporate point of view. Once the hippie scene became mainstream in that country, film producers decided to give it a chance and show a very clean and family friendly rendition of the origins of beat music. It's pretty much shallow and a huge piece of fan service for early 70's hippie-alligned youth. Still, it's very interesting to see the idiosyncracy of argentinian consumerism towards music and arts in general.

El Extraño de Pelo Largo is both an excellent rock and roll movie and a good sample of the Beat Argentino music scene in the late 60´s. In fact most of the actors are pop musicians, like Litto Nebia (the top star of the movie), who does a great job acting and singing the same ballad, "Rosemary", again and again. There are great musical scenes, interesting dialogues and very good music. The movie looks very good, very psychedelic.

If you liked this one you should see "Mosaico, la vida de una modelo" (Argentina) and "Sor Ye Ye" (Mexico).