The Mugger (2007)

Recommended

Argentina

Short Feature Film

Original Title: El asaltante

Writer/Director: Pablo Fendrik

Cinematographer: Cobi Migliora

Cast: Guillermo Arengo, Germán de Silva, Arturo Goetz, Maya Lesca, Bárbara Lombardo, Verónica Piaggio

Captured in near-enough real time with claustrophobic hand-held photography, featuring an excellent performance from Arengo, Fendrik’s promising feature directorial debut grippingly follows a seemingly respectable middle-aged man around the streets of Buenos Aires as he perpetrates a series of robberies at a number of plush private schools, before returning to his decidedly more mundane everyday life (allowing us to re-evaluate his actions). Iain.Stott