Martín Rejtman’s comeback 11 years after The Magic Gloves did not disappoint. Taking a suicide attempt as the starting point and surprising us at every turn, the film is a fascinating and subversive exercise in comedy: its sophisticated storytelling, dark humor and deadpan beauty are just genius.

This adaptation of Humberto Costantini’s book comments, through its main character, on Argentina’s “silent majority”: the people who remained passive while the military dictatorship assassinated opponents in large numbers. A suspenseful thriller imbued with a subtle, yet gripping, sense of paranoia.