Reviewer: Craig Phillips
Rating (out of 5): **½
Argentinean filmmaker Gabriel Medina's offbeat first feature The Paranoids (Los paranoicos) moves a bit slow, but it's still inventive and occasionally enchanting enough to make one curious about what the filmmaker may do next. Essentially a character study, the film follows Luciano (Whisky's talented Daniel Hendler, looking a bit like a Uruguayan Paul Schneider), a quirkily neurotic, procrastinating screenwriter who earns a living entertaining at kids' parties (garbed in a Smoochy-like suit as his character "Cachito"). He spends a lot of time brooding in his apartment because he's, well, paranoid and sociophobic. He's such the perfectionist that he's spent years struggling over one script, and unsurprisingly, all his anxieties make it hard for him to have a girlfriend. (In the midst of a fling, he's terrified of contracting an Std because the condom breaks.)...
Rating (out of 5): **½
Argentinean filmmaker Gabriel Medina's offbeat first feature The Paranoids (Los paranoicos) moves a bit slow, but it's still inventive and occasionally enchanting enough to make one curious about what the filmmaker may do next. Essentially a character study, the film follows Luciano (Whisky's talented Daniel Hendler, looking a bit like a Uruguayan Paul Schneider), a quirkily neurotic, procrastinating screenwriter who earns a living entertaining at kids' parties (garbed in a Smoochy-like suit as his character "Cachito"). He spends a lot of time brooding in his apartment because he's, well, paranoid and sociophobic. He's such the perfectionist that he's spent years struggling over one script, and unsurprisingly, all his anxieties make it hard for him to have a girlfriend. (In the midst of a fling, he's terrified of contracting an Std because the condom breaks.)...
- 5/9/2011
- by GreenCineStaff
- GreenCine
Two scenes stick in my mind from "The Paranoids," the debut feature of Argentine direc tor Gabriel Medina. One I'd like to forget: Luciano, the film's anti-hero, vomiting into the toilet. A few seconds, maybe. But this scene goes on and on and on. Enough, already! The second sequence is pleasurable and comes toward the end, when Luciano (Daniel Hendler) and Sofia (Jazmin Stuart) burn up the dance floor with their provocative movements. Luciano is a procrastinator (he can't seem to finish his screenplay) and hypochondriac (he fears he caught AIDS...
- 1/22/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Two scenes stick in my mind from “The Paranoids,” the debut feature of Argentine director Gabriel Medina. One I’d like to forget: Luciano, the film’s antihero, vomiting into the toilet. A few seconds, maybe. But this scene goes on and on and on. Enough, already! The second sequence is pleasurable and comes toward the end, when Luciano (Daniel Hendler) and Sofia (Jazmin Stuart) burn up the dance floor with their provocative movements. Luciano is a procrastinator (he can’t seem to finish his screenplay) and hypochondriac (he fears he...
- 1/22/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
- We wish Adam Yauch of Oscilloscope Laboratories (or better known as McA from the Beastie Boys) a speedy recovery. One third of the hip hop trio will be sidelined from performing with the group this summer due to a treatable, cancerous tumor in his salivary glands. With film being his second passion, perhaps there is a positive to be found in a negative: more down time, might mean more movie watching? Less than three years old, his independent film distribution label has become a testament during a full blown crisis in the film industry, that a small scale model can still thrive and deliver quality films to a public. He'll be busy with Oscilloscope's upcoming releases of Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein's No Impact Man this September, Oren Moverman's The Messenger in November and he has the eventual releases of a Jules Dassin title The Law, Lance Daly's Kisses,
- 7/20/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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