I watched this film just after coming back from Argentina. We did not go to Patagonia but travelled in the Andean north-west. The film feels exactly like the country does. It is amazingly real, down to the smallest detail like having the windscreen of a car washed at a petrol station while you're sitting inside... It is a vast space populated by people who may not be rich and who appear to be contented and happy, but who probably believe in a miracle of becoming rich one day; people for whom Buenos Aires feels more distant than to someone from the Old World; people who made us feel welcome and at home in spite of our total lack of the language.
After just two weeks in the country it seemed that we could understand the people around perfectly well. Likewise, when watching the film you may only catch an odd word without reading the subtitles, but you understand and feel for and with the characters... no, people who live in it.
After just two weeks in the country it seemed that we could understand the people around perfectly well. Likewise, when watching the film you may only catch an odd word without reading the subtitles, but you understand and feel for and with the characters... no, people who live in it.