The home of world cinema in Hartford presents a new movie from Argentina, joining films from Japan, Germany, France, and South Africa on the current Cinestudio flyer. An elegant mystery by director Lucrecia Martel (and produced by Pedro Almodóvar) is both an homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and a exploration of the political and historical amnesia of the wealthy classes of Argentina. A well-to-do blonde woman (María Onetto) answers her cell phone while driving home in a rainstorm. There is a crash and although she thinks she may have hit a young boy, she keeps driving. While her corrupt and entitled family colludes in pretending that nothing has happened, the haunted woman finds it increasingly hard to know real crimes from imagined ones. “Martel’s vision is visually rich and complex...a precise tour de force performance by Maria Onetto.” G. Allen Johnston, San Francisco Chronicle.

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