Rojo

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Set in Argentina during the Dirty War of the mid-seventies, on the eve of the nation’s descent into a military dictatorship, Benjamín Naishtat s hypnotic neo-noir drama follows Claudio (Dario Grandinetti, WILD TALES, TALK TO HER) a renowned lawyer living a seemingly picture-perfect life in a deceptively quiet provincial city. One night, a stranger starts insulting Claudio in a restaurant for no apparent reason. The community supports him and the stranger is humiliated and removed. Later that night, the stranger determined to wreak a terrible vengeance intercepts Claudio and his wife Susana (Andrea Frigerio). Claudio then starts down a path of no return involving death, secrets, and silence further complicated by the arrival of a Chilean private detective (Alfredo Castro, THE CLUB, TONY MANERO).

With powerful performances from its leading cast, ROJO is a timely drama whose South American historical references hold eerie resonance for our contemporary political moment suggesting social complicity in the unfolding of far-reaching authoritarian regimes.

Review

Twisty and deeply satisfying. –The List

A sophisticatedly entertaining reminder of our propensity for malevolent apathy. –Los Angeles Times

Masterfully sustains a sense of ‘wrongness.’ –Slant