Guadalupe Docampo 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
In the tradition of such films as Taxi Driver and Falling Down, Rodrigo Moreno's character study El Custodio meditates on deep-seated loneliness - the pain and alienation of being an outcast, a nobody - of being tagged as irrelevant. Julio Chavez is Ruben, the bodyguard to the Minister of National Planning (Osmar Nunez)). Ruben watches constantly from a distance as life (in the form of the Minister's activities) passes him by, but is never once allowed to participate. His life consists, exclusively, of constantly shadowing the Minister - in the limousine, in quiet conference rooms, in vacant hallways. Laconic, soft-spoken and introverted, his only external activity consists of occasional sketching in a notebook, and of tending to his mentally ill sister (Cristina Villamor). Inside, however, a quiet rage and a need for self-expression begins to build, that -- in the film's startling conclusion - pushes Ruben to the brink of explosion. Moreno shoots everything in the film from Ruben's point of view and relies heavily on lengthy, static takes to capture the monotony and emptiness of the bodyguard's life. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julio Chávez, Osmar Nuñez, (more)
