Nahuel Perez Biscayart Movies
- 2008
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
- Starring:
- Arturo Goetz, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, (more)
- 2006
A teenage boy is forced to dive into the murky waters of adolescence in this comedy-drama from Argentine filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos. Lucas (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) is a bored and restless fifteen-year-old living in a sleepy town in Patagonia's version of the Middle of Nowhere. Things have hardly been happy at home since Lucas's parent's split up over his father's constant infidelity, and matters are hardly any more comfortable elsewhere. Lucas is obsessed with the changes in his body, he's trying to get the garage band he's formed with his buddies off the ground, and he can think of little besides sex. Lucas's best friend is a similarly confused adolescent, Nacho (Nahuel Viale); together they pass the time by hanging out and playing pranks on others, though Lucas tries not to think about his growing attraction to Nacho. Lucas's sexual confusion rises to a new level when he and Nacho strike up a friendship with Andrea (Ines Efron), the slightly geeky new girl at school; when Lucas's dad leaves him alone to watch over his apartment one weekend, he invites Nacho and Andrea over for the evening, which leads to a long night of sniffing glue and rudimentary making out. Glue (aka Glue: Historia Adolescente En Medio De La Nada) received its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Nahuel Viale, (more)
A lonely taxidermist with a photographic memory dreams of committing the "perfect crime" in Nine Queens director Fabián Bielinsky's deliberately paced existential thriller. Espinosa (Ricardo Darín) is an epileptic fortysomething who makes his living by stuffing creatures for the natural history museum in Buenos Aires. It is there that Espinosa meets friend and fellow taxidermist Sontag (Alejandro Awada). After picking up their paycheck at a nearby bank, Sontag kindly invites the lonely Espinosa to join him in the forests of southern Argentina for a brief hunting getaway. Soon after checking into their hotel, Sontag and Espinosa take to nature in hopes of bagging a buck, but their voyage takes a dark turn when, in the grip of another seizure, Espinosa accidentally shoots and kills hotel owner Dietrich (Manuel Rodal). Though his suspicions that Dietrich was involved with some shady dealings seem little more than a means for justifying the tragic turn of events, Espinosa soon realizes that he may be onto something when a pair of thugs named Sosa (Pablo Cedron) and Montero (Walter Reyno) come searching for the missing proprietor. As all of the elements quickly fall into place, it begins to appear as if Espinosa may finally be prepared to execute the crime he has always dreamt about. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, (more)
