Dir. Matias Penachino With an observational documentary style, Summun Bonum opens with a family watching old video footage of when the parents adopted children from a foreign country. Straight away the mother’s natural son asks […]
Author: filmdoo
Catalan director Sergio Caballero’s surrealist crime caper The Distance (La Distancia) is unapologetically left of field. In fact the film, an atmospheric heist movie with a healthy hint of Tarkovsky’s Stalker (and follow-up to 2010’s […]
Original title: “La Historia Oficial” Set in the final years of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), The Official Story is unafraid of exploring the pain that this period brought to the country. It […]
In 2002 John Muhammad and Lee Malvo carried out a series of shootings across Washington D.C., killing 10 people and wounding three more. Blue Caprice tells the story of these events, from Muhammad’s would-be adoption […]
by Charlie Roberson Juan J. Campanella Juan Campanella is one of the most exciting current Argentine directors, which makes it all the more surprising that he nearly chose a very different path in his life. […]
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The beginning of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina†could well be the introduction to the 2001 Argentinian movie “The Swampâ€, directed […]