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Director
Martín Rejtman
Cast
Vicentico,
Valeria Bertuccelli,
Fabián Arenillas,
Cecilia Biagini,
Susana Pampín,
Diego Olivera
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
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.
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.
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.
Film Threat
While the film suffers from a forced absurdity meant to invoke comedy and laughs along with a sluggish pacing, Rejtman captures the grim monotony of life well.
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
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.
Variety
Sporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced.
Film Threat by Felix Vasquez, Jr.
While the film suffers from a forced absurdity meant to invoke comedy and laughs along with a sluggish pacing, Rejtman captures the grim monotony of life well.
Variety by Leslie Felperin
Sporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A limp urban comedy not nearly as whimsical as its title.
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