The Mugger / El Asaltante
Series: Film Comment Selects [2009]
Director: Pablo Fendrik, Country: Argentina, Release: 2007, Runtime: 67
Fri Feb 20: 9:15
Sun Feb 22: 1
Series: Film Comment Selects [2009]
Director: Pablo Fendrik, Country: Argentina, Release: 2007, Runtime: 67
Fri Feb 20: 9:15
Sun Feb 22: 1
This briskly paced minimalist thriller, shot in long stretches of seeming real time, tags along with a soft-spoken middle-aged man as he brazenly sticks up a pair of Buenos Aires schools in what becomes an absurdly prolonged marathon of attack, escape, and pursuit. First-time director Pablo Fendrik’s camera tails this unlikely desperado all over town, searching for an explanation for his actions. Arturo Goetz gives a tour-de-force performance as the holdup artist who becomes a mysterious vector traveling both through and against the current of modern life.
A Week Alone / Una semana solos
Series: Film Comment Selects [2009]
Director: Celina Murga, Country: Argentina, Release: 2007, Runtime: 110
Mon Mar 2: 8:30
Tue Mar 3: 6:30
Series: Film Comment Selects [2009]
Director: Celina Murga, Country: Argentina, Release: 2007, Runtime: 110
Mon Mar 2: 8:30
Tue Mar 3: 6:30
“Perhaps Murga’s best work is with her young cast, who look like they’re allowed to simply be themselves. The pic’s mood is dominated by young thesps naturally being in the moment, with the resulting feeling being that we as the audience are spying on them.” —Robert Koehler, Variety
Celina Murga’s follow-up to her acclaimed Ana and the Others is a vivid yet subtle portrait of class. Murga makes beautiful behavioral music with her cast of children and adolescents, playing the sons and daughters of wealthy parents off on extended holidays who are left to fend for themselves in their gated community. The action of A Week Alone is pointedly meandering as Murga follows kids trying create a semblance of a moral code, and the drama develops internally to a quietly devastating climax.
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