Guillermo Arengo Movies

A dysfunctional family jumps the rails into bloody violence in this gritty thriller from Argentina. Arturo (Arturo Goetz) supports his family driving a taxi and seems to have a habit of attracting the strangest and most unstable fares in town. Arturo's constant exposure to the city's sordid underbelly has begun having a profound effect on him, which isn't helped by his rocky relationship with his son. Teenaged Leandro (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) makes his pocket money selling drugs on the street, though most of the time he seems more interested in bedding a neighborhood hooker who is clearly underage. In time, Arturo's growing instability and Leandro's open disrespect become a combustible combination that explodes with deadly force. La Sangre Brota (aka Blood Appears) was screened as part of the Critics' Week series at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Clocking in at only 70 minutes, Argentine director Pablo Fendrik's unsparingly tense drama El Asaltante (AKA The Assailant, 2007) observes - in real-time - the various conflicting emotions undergone by a perpetrator before he commits a serious and potentially lethal act of aggression. After premeditating the event in his mind for ages, the titular assailant opts to move forward, step by step, and experiences a co-mingling of fear, apprehension, rage, and an overriding loss of hope that will ultimately drive him to commit the most desperate act of his life. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Ines de Oliveira Cezar's bittersweet The Hours Go By follows two different pairs of people as they spend the day together. Rene (Roxana Berco) spends the day with her elderly mother (Susana Campos, Berco's real-life mother), while Rene's husband and young son enjoy a sojourn to the beach. The conversations each pair has reveals a great deal about how the entire family interacts. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide