Film
Rojo (15)
Dir. Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina/Brazil, 2018, 109 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Dario Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi.
Main Language: Spanish
Rojo is a stylish, darkly funny drama set on the eve of the 1976 Argentinian coup that ushered in a military dictatorship and immerses us in the country’s troubled collective subconscious during its Dirty War. Claudio is a middle-aged, happily married lawyer with a comfortable life in a provincial town. But in a restaurant one night he is attacked by a mysterious stranger. A few months later, a friend comes to see Claudio about an abandoned house that he is interested in buying. These two separate scenes form the foundations of this spellbinding, slow-burn suspense drama. As a Chilean private detective arrives on the scene, we are drawn further into a reality where nothing is as it seems.
Cast. Dario Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi.
Main Language: Spanish
Rojo is a stylish, darkly funny drama set on the eve of the 1976 Argentinian coup that ushered in a military dictatorship and immerses us in the country’s troubled collective subconscious during its Dirty War. Claudio is a middle-aged, happily married lawyer with a comfortable life in a provincial town. But in a restaurant one night he is attacked by a mysterious stranger. A few months later, a friend comes to see Claudio about an abandoned house that he is interested in buying. These two separate scenes form the foundations of this spellbinding, slow-burn suspense drama. As a Chilean private detective arrives on the scene, we are drawn further into a reality where nothing is as it seems.
