Argentine writer-director Fabian Bielinsky's second and last feature — he died shortly after completing it, aged 47 — is an existential thriller about an epileptic taxidermist with dreams of pulling off the perfect crime. Alienated and alone since his wife left him, Espinosa (Ricardo Darin) is delivering a stuffed fox to a Buenos Aires museum when he runs into colleague Sontag (Alejandro Awada), who persuades Espinosa to join him for a weekend hunting trip in the Patagonian forests — in truth, it's more a thinly veiled challenge than an invitation. Espinosa eventually agrees, and the trip gets off to a bad start: They arrive to find the hotel booked solid. Sontag nev...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
134 mins