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‎TRENQUE LAUQUEN: PART 1

Laura Citarella Argentina, 2022
Like the best film noir, with which this in undoubtedly in dialogue, Trenque Lauquen is a film about affect and textural cohesion moreso than logic and catharsis.
December 11, 2023
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A four-hour film told across 12 chapters and arriving in two parts, this epic mystery is a remarkable achievement... Laura Citarella, its director, cannily wields narrative like a magician might, misdirecting the audience or obfuscating.
December 8, 2023
Citarella’s storytelling — all flashbacks, repetitions and overlaps — suggest the hypnotically unpredictable drift of a Roberto Bolaño novel... Trenque Lauquen plucks the bizarre out of the everyday, to laid-back but altogether magical effect.
December 7, 2023
With the verve of a master classical storyteller, Citarella stages the unfolding of this eccentric mystery while processing the dizzying flow of information with a grace and precision that will have you hanging on every frame.
December 5, 2023
As Citarella’s camera follows Laura into the wilderness on her unexplained walkabout, there is something intriguing about the amplitude of her film-making language, the cool way she refuses to tie anything up. Cult status beckons.
December 4, 2023
The New York Times
Citarella’s film posits that being lost can be a kind of liberation, and that mystery, in movies, can be an end in itself... The pleasure lies in the telling... rather than in the details of plot. Once you lose yourself in the thickets of “Trenque Lauquen,” you won’t want to be found.
August 20, 2023
Trenque Lauquen [is] a film whose intricate, shape-shifting storytelling ultimately resists the fulsome pleasures of story, a work whose narrative indirection serves, in the end, no other purpose but negation.
April 21, 2023
[Trenque Lauquen] reaffirms what we are too perilously close to forgetting: that going to a cinema, especially to succumb to a movie that makes a not-insignificant demand on your time, is itself a commitment to adventure—a folly, perhaps, but what memorable romance isn’t?
April 14, 2023
[Trenque Lauquen] will best appeal to those who like their mystery to come wrapped in an enigma or enjoy their shaggy dog stories to shake many tales.
November 1, 2022
Long movies are not necessarily good or even ambitious; Trenque Lauquen is both. Notwithstanding a few minutes that could be shed here and there, everything from its sweet, intriguing Part I, the strategically placed and electrifying title sequence, and deliciously ominous Part II feel purposeful, organic.
October 10, 2022
Many artists have taken similarly postmodern notions of an impossible truth into realms of despair and madness, but Citarella emphasizes the liberating quality of following the rabbit hole as deep as it goes, of losing oneself as the catalyst for realizing no one has a set, permanent self to lose in the first place.
September 29, 2022
Lengthy it may be, but this is light-of-touch fare, provocative and satisfyingly enigmatic, and though it feels like a four-hour MacGuffin, it remains an accomplished, literary and self-referential exercise in narrative deferral.
September 23, 2022
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