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The Employer and the Employee

Submissions for Best International Feature (Academy Awards 2023)

El empleado y el patrón

2021

Manuel Nieto Zas

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Cristian Borges, Justina Bustos, Fátima Quintanilla ...

6.5

129

Drama The employer is a young man from a middle-class family; he leads a modern life and doesn’t fit in with the traditional stereotype of rural producer. But he has one pressing concern: his baby’s health. The employee is even younger than him and is in urgent need of his own job so that he can support his new family. Tragedy occurs: the employee’s baby dies in an accident in the tractor. A film about the relationship between two young men ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"This is a slow-burn drama whose lack of incident and evident heroes and villains makes all the more surprising its powerful hold on the attention. (...) Not only a class study, but a nuanced exploration of guilt, responsibility and emotional manipulation"
		Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Nieto has us on the edge of our seats waiting for vengeance and carnage, to the point where we’re primed to be surprised by whatever else happens in the background off-screen"
		Alfonso Rivera Cineuropa	"Nieto Zas, with an elegant and more mature use of ellipses and of the off-screen space, and through the gaze of his excellent actors, suggests the complex situations that his characters live in"

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