Directed by LAURA CITARELLA
Starring LAURA PAREDES, EZEQUIEL PIERR I, RAFAEL SPREGELBURD
Released 8 DECEMBER
ANTICIPATION. 4
Plaudits a-plenty on the festival circuit, and great that it’s being released int he UK.
ENJOYMENT. 5
An extraordinary achievement in both narrative storytelling and thematic originality.
IN RETROSPECT. 5
In a year of VLF (very long films), Trenque Lauquen is quite possibly the finest of them all.
Cinema, by its design, is obsessed with intimate, present tense emotion. What is happening to a person now, and how are they reacting to it? The cosseted, conventional shape of films doesn’t tend to allow the exploration of slow change over time, or grand arcs which have been catalysed by something unforeseen or unfathomable. Laura Citarella’s extraordinary, novelistic new feature, Trenque Lauquen, stretches its narrative luxuriantly, yet economically,…