The comings and goings of people from a suburban house and an altercation in a restaurant between two men, one the calm respectable lawyer and community leader Claudio and the other an agitated stranger who briefly upsets the restaurant's convivial atmosphere, are the not quite commonplace, slightly skew-whiff scenes that launch director Benjamin Naishtat's exceptional thriller; how the scenes are connected is unclear and the disparate moments continue (a fleeting tv commercial in which a model kills rather than shares his drink, a tv detective and former cop with an easy case on his hands, and a teenager to whom the immorality of simply disappearing a rival never occurs) but the movie gradually, unexpectedly ties these threads together while in the background the military coup that commenced Argentina's Dirty War starts being felt in the day-to-day of the characters.
★★★★★
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