Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

08 July 2021

Carancho


Carancho
was exciting (and outrageous) for a while, and about midway through I thought Oh I really like this movie. This is good. 

But Carancho wore thin with me during act three, and by the end, the movie collapsed in on itself. I suppose the ending of the film is meant as a kind of commentary about life and death and control over circumstances, but it felt like a kind of overly neat shrug to me, as if not much of it mattered.

I watched this because it stars Ricardo Darín, who I love, and because it was leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of June.

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