El Bonaerense details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Jorge Roman, Mimi Ardu, Dario Levy |
| Director: | Pablo Trapero |
| Genres: | Drama, World Cinema - Spanish |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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El Bonaerense |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 42 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 13 Sep 2004 |
| Main languages: | Spanish |
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Low Key
By FrankIV (513 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 15 Dec 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
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An interesting, low-key account of the progress of a none-too-bright man through the police force, aided by some nepotism and a remarkably compliant disposition. The style of the film distances us by not showing us certain events, only the aftermath, and the effect is to render us dispassionate and clinical in our assessment of the character and situation.
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(8)A Real Shame
By buffyrules (345 reviews) from southend on sea , 01 Aug 2011Really felt this film should have been good but it just did not do enough-everything seemed to be there but not fulfilled at all. Was more annoying as the main actor was good but had so little depth to his character that by the end I was left pretty numb.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Interesting
By a customer from Redhill , 06 Mar 2010almost documentary style drama of the police in Buenos Aires. Seems to be set in the past but I fear it's in the present! Neither dictatorship nor democracy have been able to change the corruption there.- Was this review helpful to you?
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More of a "guys film"
By FromTheSofa (1 review) from London , 03 Jul 2008I found this film okay but to be honest a little on the boring side - maybe it's the kind of film men would enjoy more than women? Not that it's full of action, but just because it centres on a very male-dominated world and, as a woman, I found the central character quite hard to relate to.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A strange and unusual policier
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 25 Dec 2007The sort of film which only really hits you some time after you've finished watching it, 'El Bonaerense' (named after the Buenos Aires police headquarters where some of the picture takes place) barely has anything resembling a plot. Which isn't to say that nothing happens: rather, a young-ish locksmith from the countryside gets into trouble with the law, and is let off (due to some family connections) on the condition that he go to the capital and join the police force. There he struggles at first, but then finds potential redemption via a romance with one of his instructors, and potential damnation through being taken under the wing of a corrupt officer. But Trapero structures and films it all in such affectless fashion and gets such a marvellously blank performance from his leading man (Jorge Roman), that it's frequently difficult to tell not just what is going on, but what is even being intended. Stick with it, though, because it's a fascinating dissection of a particular life, and, just perhaps, a reflection on exactly what led Argentina into its economic meltdown around the turn of the century.- Was this review helpful to you?
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New Wave Argentine Ultra-Realism!
By a customer from Bristol , 23 Jan 2007Interesting film about corruption, shot in grainy black and white well worth a look for film students to see how Pablo Trapero gets the actors to interact, Hollywood or people that have visited Argentina.
The gritty ultra realistic style that this is filmed with makes regular corrupt goings on that would be too mundane to be in a regular Hollywood explosions, car chases cliché plotline police film, seem much more interesting and hard hitting as it's almost looks a documentary in parts.
People have criticized the main character for lacking charisma in this film and rightly so but I think what the director wanted to convey is the 'facelessness' and the ability just to blend, keep a low profile and not ask questions about what you are asked to do. But that is necessary to move up the ranks of corrupt police forces or the Bonaerense in particular, the Buenos Aires Province Police force which roughly translates and Greater Buenos Aires Police (the huge area that is the suburbs with 8 million people).
There’s still not enough new-wave Latin film on LoveFilm.com and I hope more people agree.- Was this review helpful to you?
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