The film never dares to court our revulsion at what the survivors must do to live.
La Práctica Review: Martín Rejtman’s Droll Portrait of the Follies of an Ordered World
by Zach Lewis
Rejtman’s serio-comic fifth feature reminds us of how absurd and beautiful a mortal life can be.
The film deploys genre cues only to sidestep their expected payoffs and moral resolutions.
Matías Piñeiro’s film isn’t so much deeply disrespecting notions of ownership, authorship, etc., as charitably redefining them.
A Mysterious World might be the most auteur-y object to emerge from the festival’s “City to City” Buenos Aires-themed program.