Fifty-year-old Rulo, a former rock musician who once knew glory, is looking for a job as a crane operator in Buenos Aires despite being inexpert and suffering from vertigo. He is also worried about his son, who seems to be taking the same path of pleasant loser. After a tender and fragile love affair, he winds up driving bulldozers in a remote part of Patagonia, 3000 km from home.
Filmed in black and white on a very low budget, this first film by Trapero seems to have been inspired by Chaplin’s Modern times but is also reminiscent, in its routine strangeness, of early works by Jim Jarmusch and other exponents of western low-budget movies. |
