Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
Acting
Oscar Martínez's unraveling is masterclass in barely-contained panic.
Direction
Burman keeps you guessing what's real until the final frame.
Cinematography
Buenos Aires apartments become characters of elegant isolation.
Director
Daniel Burman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burman's 'Jewish Buenos Aires' trilogy explores secular Argentine-Jewish identity rarely seen on screen; this is its most melancholic entry.
Martínez and Roth had played spouses before; their comfortable silence here was largely unscripted, discovered in rehearsal.
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