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Release Date: 24 June, 2003 Retail Price: $19.95 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
A Shadow You Soon Will Be Reviews
An excellent, interesting cast of characters
Hector Olivera has had an extensive career in the film industry since the 50's as a Director, Producer, Assistant Producer, Writer, Actor and more.
This 1994 Argentina movie is quite an interesting conglomeration of desolate countryside, pathetic souls, thieves, scammers, and dreamers.
The first scene, an empty train stranded in a desolate depressed town sets the foundation for the tone of the movie. A computer programmer is left to fend for himself amongst the town's unique characters. Primarily, the pitiful characters are engaging into means of survival amongst each other, which primarily includes thievery. And, the computer man wandering the countryside participates within these means of survival. If you live with them, you become them.
We don't know the computer man's name, only that one crazy character he meets is Coluccini, the circus tightrope walker who calls him Zarate, the namesake of his old partner who robbed him of his circus.
Zarate has baggage that includes a lost wife and feelings of not being a good father to his daughter in Rome. He encounters the fortune teller who has a reputation of getting it wrong, a drifter who earns money by providing "showers" to migrant workers out of his attache case (you have to see this contraption); the mute and his girl trying to get to, lord only knows why, but Cleveland, Ohio, fake priests, etc., etc.
But the crux of survival is the casino, where Lem, the Rolls Royce owner believes the computer man, Zarate, has the winning strategy at the casino. And Coluccini also teams up with Zarate for shenanigans at the card table.
This was often amusing, great photography, a somber tone with a sprinkle of soothing soundtrack intermittently. The DVD is simple with no extras. It is excellent! .....MzRizz
A great movie.
This is a great movie. Since others have reviewed the plot I'll cover the specifics of the DVD features. I only wish it had some extras on the DVD. This DVD is like owning the VHS tape. It has no extras. The subtitles are automatic so you can't turn them off. The transfer is relatively good with only a few mionor exceptions.
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