Synopsis
This film follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a rock musician, a flight attendant, a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication, and a cab driver, who doesn’t really care about his life spiralling out of control, as long as he can sit in his old Renault 12.
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Cast
- VicenticoAlejandro
- Valeria BertuccelliValeria
- Fabián ArenillasSergio
- Cecilia BiaginiCecilia
- Susana PampínSusana
- Diego OliveraLuis
- Leonardo AzamorDaniel
- Víctor Hugo CarrizoBus driver
- Darío LevyOtorrinolaringologo
- Pietr KrysavHugh
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 63
New York Daily News
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. - 60
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. - 60
Variety
Sporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced. - 60
Village Voice
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. - 30
The New York Times
A limp urban comedy not nearly as whimsical as its title.
