A slick thriller from Argentina’s Pablo Trapero brilliantly juxtaposes domestic life and the kidnapping businessThis boisterous thriller,which is based on real events, is the most mainstream film to date from Argentinian director Pablo Trapero (Lion’s Den, or El Bonaerense). The story of the well-connected Puccio family,which in the early 1980s used its links with the government to cover up a lucrative kidnapping trade, this is told using the slick language of a Hollywood crime film. Trapero negotiates with verve the uneasy juxtaposition between quotidian family life and something rather darker and more sinister. But the film’s driving force is Guillermo Francella: with his ice-chip eyes and subdued menace, or he is chilling as the Puccio family patriarch Archimedes.
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Source: theguardian.com