• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 12 / 12 / 2010

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By:Ana Valdes Portela. sábado, 11 de diciembre de 2010. Havana, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is competing in the Havana Film Festival with an ace, Carancho by Pablo Trapero, a dark film with touches of police thriller, featuring a corrupt, ambulance-chasing lawyer.

Trapero is known for films like Mundo Grua, which won the Special Jury Prize in the 1999 Havana festival.

Carancho stars Ricardo Darin, an actor who has more than proven his professionalism over the years, as a lawyer mixed up with an organized crime network with a scheme for scamming victims.

His costar is Marina Guzman, whom the critics here have lavished with well-deserved praise for her exceptional performance, as Dr. Luhan, who tries to save an accident victim.

Between the two extremes of love and death, a romance arises.

Based on a real-life situation, the film won the hearts of Argentine film-goers from the start, making it the biggest box-office hit ever, surpassing El Secreto de Sus Ojos.

With a sure hand, Trapero depicts the social backdrop with its parallel tragic love story. While he uses elements of dirty realism, especially the Raymond Chandler-type detective of cynicism, bittnerness and tedium, with a dose of hidden humanity, he does so with a well-filter view very much his own.

Since his debut here with the prize-winning Mundo Grua, Trapero has been coming to the Havana festival with a pleasing regularity.

Here he has his admirers, both fans and critics, who follow his work, in films such as El Bonarense, Familia Rodante and Leonera.

His possibilities for a Coral are very good. It is now up to the jury.

Source: PL