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CASTRO

Directed by Alejo Moguillansky
Argentina, 2009
Drama, Mystery

Synopsis

This cockeyed semi-comedy’s unlikely basis is Samuel Beckett’s 1938 novel Murphy, but it preserves only the book’s central conceit: a set of characters constantly in pursuit of the title character ready to check out of the rat race and sever all ties with his past.

Synopsis

This cockeyed semi-comedy’s unlikely basis is Samuel Beckett’s 1938 novel Murphy, but it preserves only the book’s central conceit: a set of characters constantly in pursuit of the title character ready to check out of the rat race and sever all ties with his past.

Our take

A frenetic, existentialist action movie shot with lean agility and an eye for the absurd. A true fleet pleasure. The second film from the New Argentine cinema’s Alejo Moguillansky, also part of the El Pampero Cine company, and editor of Extraordinary Stories.