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Heroic Losers

La odisea de los giles

2019

Sebastián Borensztein

Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Chino Darín, Verónica Llinás ...

6.6

11,401

Comedy. Drama Based on the book from Eduardo Sacheri "The Night of the Heroic Losers" (Alfaguara Novel Prize 2016). In a far-flung town in the province of Buenos Aires, many things are about to die out. During the economic crisis that led to the traumatic bank freeze of 2001, a group of men decides to gather the amount of money necessary to acquire some abandoned silos on an agro-industrial property. But even before they can carry out the project, a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Tobias Variety	"Borensztein has turned Argentina’s devastating early-2000s financial crisis into the sort of generous, cathartic entertainment that his characters might enjoy"	POS
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"Although formulaic, it’s suitably empathetic and entertaining (...) in transforming bleak reality into an uplifting fantasy, this remains a thoroughly likeable movie"	POS
	Alfonso Rivera Cineuropa	"This revanchist film, with its intricate plot and comic tone, whose pace slows as the story progresses, could have gone much further when it came to passing judgment on those who play with others’ illusions"	POS

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