Plan B

Wily, conniving Bruno (Manuel Vignau) has been dumped by his girlfriend Laura (Mercedes Quinteros), only now he desperately wants her back. She’s not interested, however, as there’s a new man in her life, the charming, good-looking Pablo (Lucas Ferraro). When Bruno realises that she’s not going to give Pablo up, he devises an alternative plan to win her back. But events start spinning out of control when Bruno encounters a few unforeseen complications along the way. Marco Berger builds on his promising earlier short, The Watch (seen in Cannes and Sundance) with this smart, funny feature debut. A beautifully shot reflection on male foibles and friendships, Plan B is grounded in two outstanding performances from Manuel Vignau and Lucas Ferraro that avoid empty rhetoric and easy clichés. Neil Labute meets Marivaux (with a wry, amusing twist) in an appealing modern-day love story set among the roof terraces, gyms and apartments of contemporary Buenos Aires. —BFI