Film Review: Nine Queens (2000)
24 hours in the lives of two con artists – played by Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls – on theContinue Reading
Tag: Argentina
Film Review: Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (2024)
Celebrating life, not the afterlife, Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s feature film debut Chronicles of a Wandering Saint mixes folklore, religion, and magic inContinue Reading
Film Review: Eureka (2024)
A lawless town in America’s ‘Wild West’, a Reservation in South Dakota, and the Amazon rainforest are the settings forContinue Reading
Azor – London Film Festival 2021
An atmosphere of quiet menace pervades this conspiracy thriller set in 1980s Buenos Aires. Azor is the feature debut of Andreas FontanaContinue Reading
The Intruder – AFI Film Festival 2020
The Argentinian film starts off with an interesting premise but never rises above that. The Intruder is neither drama withContinue Reading
A Common Crime – London Film Festival 2020
Soporific and missing a chance to tell a much more interesting story, A Common Crime does at least have aContinue Reading
The Intruder – London Film Festival 2020
An intriguing opening and a musical finale bookend this Argentinian horror-thriller – but the middle sags and doesn’t live upContinue Reading
Family Member (Los Miembros de la Familia) – AFI Film Fest 2019 Review
The Argentinean Drama Family Members (Los Miembros de la Familia) finds warmth and understanding through tragedy. It is a rareContinue Reading
Film Review: El Angel
Scott delves into Argentina’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film the Crime Film El Angel. ElContinue Reading
The Queen of Fear (La Reina del Miedo): London Film Festival 2018 Review
Valeria Bertucelli puts herself centre stage as she writes, directs and starts in The Queen of Fear. A studyContinue Reading