Much of Argentine cinema in recent months, which has true aspirations to reach a mass audience, has the productive contribution of streaming platforms. An Argentine crime He is one of them. This Thursday comes out in theaters, and in a few weeks will make its debut on HBO Max, as happened not long ago with in the viewfinderby Ricardo Hornos, another with Nicola Francesca as a protagonist, just like this one, and the list is extensive and includes Diego Perettifor instance.
Based on the novel by journalist and writer Reynaldo Sietecase, which in turn took center stage on a real case, it all revolves around a murder that took place in 1980 in Rosario, Santa Fe province.
The military dictatorship, among other things, was not at the end of the line. And the secretaries of an investigating court (Antonio and Carlos, the roles assumed by Francella and Matías Mayer, with more experience in the theater, of almost normal a Ghost) will have to face pressure from those in power.
Pressure for murder
The judge (Luis Luque) is squeezed both by a police commissioner (Alberto Ajaka, with the face they ask him to do when he plays the villain: a pity because he is an actor who gives much more than a phisique du rol) and by a member of the army (César Bordón, of which something similar could be said to what already raised with Ajaka).
But not everything is disturbing in the film by Lucas Combina, the director of the series the girl who cleans, with Antonella Costa, who made her feature film debut with this production. The script offers moments of humor, others of romance and twists in which, in addition to the character of Mayer, they aim at the intelligent resolution of the case.
The love story goes to Francella and the character of Malena Sánchez – seen in Argentina, land of love and revenge-, which is María, a seasoned courtmate. And what attracts the intellect is directly related to the appearance of the main suspect in the crime of businessman Samid.
The suspect is Márquez, a former prisoner and a boy who never knows how much he really says and how much he hides. Or how much he hides when he says what he says is true. Composed of Dario Grandinettihe is the most ambiguous character and that is why he generates the greatest attraction in the film.
It is not new that Grandinetti has an enormous ability to generate empathy and rejection with his performances. The merit of her and that of the director that Márquez is an enigma, and the same that the body of the crime does not appear. In other words, the businessman’s corpse.
The discovery is Mayer. He knows how to reproduce, change tone, put his body when the scene requires it.
The detective genre in Argentina, with a more or less dramatic load, romance or humor, is present An Argentine crime a new example of good performance.
“An Argentine crime”
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Suspense. Argentina, 2022. 116 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Luca unites. With: Nicolás Francella, Matías Mayer, Darío Grandinetti, Malena Sánchez, Luis Luque. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Showcase Quilmes and Belgrano.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
