Share

Film Review: Kékszakállú

By Manuel Betancourt

A poetic film from one of Argentina's bright young directors.

This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on peace and economic opportunity in Colombia

Gastón Solnicki’s Kékszakállú defies easy categorization. Billed as the Argentine director’s first foray into narrative cinema, this dreamy sun-kissed poem of a film feels indebted to his work in nonfiction filmmaking. With little regard to a standard plot, Kékszakállú offers a series of vignettes centered around young Argentine women spending the summer in...

Read this article on the Americas Quarterly website. | Subscribe to AQ.

Related

AQ Podcast: Why Argentines Seem to Be Sticking With Milei

Despite recession and inflation, Milei has maintained his popularity. The reason for that lies in part in a lack of alternatives.

Toomai Quintet
Music of the Americas: Online and Strings Live in New York

We feature videos by artists from Brazil and Costa Rica and the Toomai Quintet live in New York.

Explore