El Bonaerense

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Movie Info

Locksmith Zapa (Jorge Román) lives unremarkably with his family in the countryside of Argentina -- until his corrupt boss, Polaco (Hugo Anganuzzi), frames him for a robbery. When his retired-cop father bails him out, he is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a police cadet. Under the guidance of Molinari (Víctor Hugo Carrizo) and the mentoring of Inspector Gallo (Darío Levy), Zapa rises quickly, but soon he discovers the deep corruption that pervades the Buenos Aires police force.

Genre:

crime, drama
Original Language:

Spanish
Director:

Pablo Trapero
Producer:

Pablo Trapero
Runtime:

1h 41m
Sound Mix:

Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround

Cast & Crew

Jorge Román
Zapa

Darío Levy
Gallo

Hugo Anganuzzi
Polaco

Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Molinari

Graciana Chironi
Zapa's Mother

Mimí Ardú
Mabel

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Critic Reviews for El bonaerense

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (1)

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December 30, 2006 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Empire Magazine
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts.

December 5, 2003

Bob Campbell
Newark Star-Ledger
Director Trapero drives home his message -- the thin line between crooks and cops -- without hitting viewers over the head or seeming to point fingers.

November 26, 2003 | Rating: 3/4

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
[A] powerful sweat-stained swatch of Argentine neo-realism.

November 25, 2003 | Rating: 4/5

Stephen Holden
New York Times
The vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce.

November 25, 2003

Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
Wry, acerbic, satiric and moving.

November 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4

John Anderson
Newsday
Low budget and technically polished, El Bonaerense is a calm, simmering satire of a police force that is a power all to itself.

April 9, 2004 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…

Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com
Brimming with wry humor, softened by the filmmaker's Renoir-like love of his protagonist, El Bonaerense is a masterful illustration of vitiation, the sort that simple men like Zapa are heir to.

November 29, 2003 | Full Review…

Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema.

November 25, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Ken Fox
TV Guide
Stunningly shot in earthy graininess, Trapero's film feels so real it's hard to remember this is fiction.

September 12, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall