Totally absorbing from start to finish, this is the story of an unadventurous taxidermist who dreams about carrying out the perfect bank robbery. His dreams enacted before the viewer's eyes, in reality he is too withdrawn to actually perform them. Until... one day, while on a hunting trip, he accidentally shoots and kills the owner of a cabin in the woods where he discovers an armored truck heist has been blueprinted. The dead man's co-conspirators arriving, the taxidermist convinces them that he is now in charge of the robbery of the armored truck. However, things don't go smoothly at all: a bloody, botched robbery attempt before the armored truck robbery, an epileptic seizure gripping the taxidermist at the worst possible moment, and double crosses unexpectedly rearing their ugly heads with deadly results.
A leisurely paced movie that is totally absorbing, a terrific character study by Ricardo Darin, beautifully directed by the late Fabian Bielinsky, the movie accelerates towards the end with some fine twists that you don't see coming. Well worth the time and effort.
A leisurely paced movie that is totally absorbing, a terrific character study by Ricardo Darin, beautifully directed by the late Fabian Bielinsky, the movie accelerates towards the end with some fine twists that you don't see coming. Well worth the time and effort.