Kóblic (2016)

Argentina's Dirty War is the context of this thriller, set in 1977, that has Ricardo Darin playing a traumatised former Death Flight pilot who becomes involved with a married woman, and it is just a shame that by film's end this fascinating context, beautifully realised in complete period detail, ceases being relevant to the thriller plot except perhaps for dictating how brutally everyone behaves.

★★★☆☆

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The Aura (El Aura) (1993)

In this really good Argentinian thriller, an epileptic taxidermist with an eye for detail (played by the always excellent Ricardo Darin) goes on a hunting trip with his buddy and everything is hunky-dory until a shooting accident leaves one man dead and more men, grim-faced ones, show up wondering why the dead man hasn't kept some kind of an appointment.

★★★★☆

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Truman (2015)

A man, a stage actor dying of cancer, is visited in Madrid by his dear friend now living in Canada and their four days together are spent doing spontaneous but rather morbid things as both friends face the prospect of never seeing the other again, and if you think that sounds maudlin, it isn't - while certainly not without its emotional moments, this Spanish movie is a gentle, refreshing tonic.

★★★★☆

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