El bonaerense

Name: El bonaerense
Genre: Drama
Released: November 26, 2003
Rating: 66

2003

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Menemsha Entertainment | Release Date: November 26, 2003

Summary: The life of a locksmith living in a quiet town near Buenos Aires changes drastically when his boss sends him on an errand to open a safe, leading him to be arrested for robbery.

Director: Pablo Trapero

Genre(s): Drama

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Stephen Holden

Powerful sweat-stained swatch of Argentine neo-realism. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Unfolds leisurely, in anecdotal style, with deadpan humor and a sense of the absurd. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema. Read full review

Keith Phipps

As a morality play, it's a one-sided contest, because the question of whether power corrupts is never a question at all. As a queasily thrilling tour of a dirty little corner of the world, however, Trapero's film offers a memorable ride. Read full review

David Stratton

Not exactly a police corruption thriller, the film is more a study of innocence betrayed, though its insights into Argentine law enforcement are pretty scary. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Episodic in its storytelling, the film never really achieves any true narrative momentum. But individual scenes do register strongly. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Still, the vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce -- perhaps our own cultural remove allows what plays straight at home to be experienced as slightly daffy. Read full review

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