Porfirio

Name: Porfirio
Genre: Drama

Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay · 2011
1h 41m
Director Alejandro Landes
Starring Porfirio Ramirez, Jarlinsson Ramirez, Yor Jasbleidy Santos
Genre Drama

An adult male, 155 centimeters tall, of dark complexion; presents frontal baldness, regular eyebrows, brown eyes, wide nose, big mouth with thick lips, slight upper lip hair and big ears with free hanging lobes. He shows paralysis in the lower limbs, an open sore in the left gluteus and an old wound from a firearm projectile in the back; he moves in a wheelchair.

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Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker

Alejandro Landes's Porfirio is an ugly movie to watch, but it's not without purpose.

Time Out by David Fear

The whole notion of taking a page out of the Bressonian handbook (nonprofessional performers, a complete lack of emotionalism) lends a spiritual aspect to this antihero’s plight, with neither social neglect nor a battered corpus keeping his soul from transcending the self. Reaping the benefits of such a minimalist methodology, however, requires a high tolerance for Porfirio’s pitiless formalism.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Vividly depicting the indignities of the flesh, Porfirio offers a harshly sensual portrait of a man imprisoned by paralysis and the callousness of the state.

Variety by Justin Chang

Porfirio's view of physical disability often mesmerizes despite its glacial progress and stingy way with narrative information.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

The film falls into an interesting intersection between documentary and feature, between reality and fiction.

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Village Voice by Scott Foundas

Landes's tone is never salacious or exploitative, nor for that matter pandering or sentimental. This is a sui generis work—warm, sporadically funny, deeply human, and altogether beguiling.