El Custodio
Can’t quite figure out what all the fuss is about. This new Argentine film had crowds snaking around the block when I went to see it and standing room only inside. Quite frankly it is pretty boring – a risk when the movie’s subject is a ministerial bodyguard who stands around all day outside meeting rooms waiting for his boss to come out and go elsewhere. There is a story but the plot and action is so minimalist that it makes for a slow deadly dull film as well and whether they would admit it or not, the people around me were wriggling pretty much as the minutes ticked on. Sometimes life does not make for good art.
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