Pablo Trapero’s film examines the fate of an ambulance-chasing lawyer and a drug-addicted paramedic in the Buenos Aires underworld. It excels where it explores the banality of violence and suffering in this place, but lets itself down in the second half by departing from nuanced storytelling in favour of Hollywood gloss.
Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil star in a labyrinthine homicide thriller which twists, turns and generally contorts itself through the corrupt underbelly of 70s Argentine law enforcement. It doesn’t sound great, does it? Well, it bloody is great. So there.
The harrowing story of an intersex teenager struggling to establish her identity. Or is that his identity? See, even we’re confused…
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