A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Direction
Naishtat's framing turns mundane spaces into pressure cookers.
Cinematography
Sickly yellows and blown-out whites—Argentina as fever dream.
Acting
Grandinetti's face does all the work; you hate him immediately.
Director
Benjamín Naishtat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2018, released during renewed trials for Dirty War crimes—Argentina still excavating its silences.
The restaurant confrontation was filmed in a single 12-minute take; Grandinetti's trembling hands are real, not scripted.
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