Sporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced.
The Magic Gloves(Los guantes mágicos)
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Argentina, France, Germany · 2003
1h 30m
Director Martín Rejtman
Starring Vicentico, Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabián Arenillas, Cecilia Biagini
Genre Comedy, Drama
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This absurdist ensemble comedy follows the economic and social struggles of Alejandro, a Buenos Aires cab driver, and the people around him. When Alejandro breaks up with his girlfriend Cecelia, both of them are pushed into new and strange situations and social groups, shedding light on the problems of the Buenos Aires working class.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
He may earn his living as a cab driver, but the blank hero of Martín Rejtman's sardonic Argentinean comedy is perfectly content to hitch his way through life.
Martin Rejtman's 1999 "Silvia Prieto" fashioned a deadpan farce from the aimless circulation of objects and identities around its unsmiling title character. The Magic Gloves, the Argentine writer-director's 2003 follow-up, is a similarly absurdist smart-com featuring another depressed protag navigating a yuppie Buenos Aires milieu.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A limp urban comedy not nearly as whimsical as its title.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Only Rejtman's sharp eye for absurd detail and the bleakly subtle joke separates comedy from tragedy in this story of listless Bonaerenses chasing their own tails through successive drab rings of urban hell.
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