Argentinian Drama An avant-garde young man rents a room from an older couple in Argentina. As his eccentricities become increase, they come to grate on his conservative landlords, who try to control his behavior more.
Acting
Solá's Néstor weaponizes charm into menace with terrifying precision.
Direction
Santiso turns a single apartment into a pressure cooker of desire.
Production
Puppet theatre motif that blurs spectator and spectacle beautifully.
Director
José Santiso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Argentina's return to democracy, the film's claustrophobia mirrors national unease about surveillance and who controls public space. Santiso was part of the '80s Argentine cinema renaissance that re-examined repression through intimate stories.
The puppets Néstor performs with were designed by actual Buenos Aires theatre artisans, and Solá trained for months — his hands in close-up are doing the real work, no doubles. Those aren't metaphorical strings being pulled.
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