The Stolen Man
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 32m
Leaving March 1
Directed by Matías Piñeiro | 92 mins | 2007
Piñeiro’s delightful debut feature skips along with a coterie of Buenos Aires friends, galvanized by one devilishly playful woman with a penchant for games of love and chance. With New Wave brio, the film kicks off Piñeiro’s cycle of contagiously rhythmic, highly literate films, this time inspired by foundational 19th-century Argentine writer-statesman Domingo Augusto Sarmiento.
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