Peruvian directors Daniel and Diego Vidal's debut feature "October" was a minor hit on the festival circuit in 2011 that was noteworthy for its unique application of deadpan comedy to the unlikely backdrop of lower class world of loan sharks and prostitutes. The sibling filmmakers' followup similarly explores a dreary world in unorthodox fashion, in this case justifying lengthy pauses for reasons beyond their stylistic appeal: The movie revolves around a character who loses the ability to speak. As a result, its relatively thin story is almost exclusively carried by the expressions on one man's face. That would be Constantino Zegarra (Fernando Bacillio), a no-nonsense magistrate seen in the first scene dolling out justice without an iota of sympathy for lawbreakers. Within minutes, however, he receives a comeuppance for playing by the rules in a country so used to lawbreakers, when a bullet crashes through the window of his car...
- 8/8/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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