Acting
Borges and Bertuccelli's volcanic passive aggression
Writing
Dialogue that cuts like a butter knife
Production
Cramped apartment as emotional pressure cooker
Director
Marcos Carnevale
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carnevale adapted his own stage play, which explains the theatrical claustrophobia of the apartment setting.
The film satirizes Argentine middle-class pretensions; Elena's obsession with 'proper' mourning reads differently to local audiences familiar with Peronist-era performance of grief.
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