Not much happens in this gentle-hearted, black-and-white film from Argentina, but it's what
doesn't happen that makes it such an unusually satisfying experience. Rulo (Luis Margani), an unemployed, 49-year-old divorcee, doesn't have much going for him. His glory days as the bassist in a rock band are long gone, and his life is confined to the small, messy apartment he occasionally shares with his lazy 19-year-old son Claudio (Federico Esquerro), an aspiring guitarist who seems poised to follow in his father's inauspicious footsteps. Rulo starts to pull his life together when his friend Torres (Daniel Valenzuela) gets him a job on a construction site. Rulo begi...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins