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07/09/09
El Bonaerense (2003)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Zapa (Jorge Román) is a small town locksmith who is arrested for his involvement in a safecracking job arranged by his boss, Polaco (Hugo Anganuzzi). Luckily for Zapa, his Uncle Ismael (Roberto... [More]
Starring: Jorge Ramon, Dario Levy, Mimi Arduh, Hugo Anganuzzi
Director: Pablo Trapero
Reviews for El Bonaerense
1 - 16 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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12/30/06
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02/09/06
Top CriticLow budget and technically polished, El Bonaerense is a calm, simmering satire of a police force that is a power all to itself.
04/09/04
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12/10/03
Top CriticCredit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts.
12/05/03
Brimming with wry humor, softened by the filmmaker's Renoir-like love of his protagonist, El Bonaerense is a masterful illustration of vitiation, the sort that simple men like Zapa are heir to.
11/29/03
Director Trapero drives home his message -- the thin line between crooks and cops -- without hitting viewers over the head or seeming to point fingers.
11/26/03
Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema.
11/25/03
[A] powerful sweat-stained swatch of Argentine neo-realism.
11/25/03
Top CriticThe vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce.
11/25/03
Wry, acerbic, satiric and moving.
11/25/03
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10/01/03
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09/16/03
Top CriticStunningly shot in earthy graininess, Trapero's film feels so real it's hard to remember this is fiction.
09/12/03
A stark and troubling film.
09/06/03
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