Las acacias (2011)

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1. 

   RonJensen

   Watch it here with English Subtitles:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmAIJFWh0mo 3 years 10 months ago
2. 

   Torgo

   Surprisingly striking for a film in which you see two people talking very little to each other and where nothing really "happens" - except, it does.
   
   Will be formally too minimalist for many; others should be taken with its pleasant simplicity. 3 years 5 months ago
3. 

   dombrewer

   A quiet, subtle and surprisingly affecting South American drama, detailing a few days in the life of Ruben, a lorry driver who transports timber from Paraguay across the border into Argentina. Asked by his boss to drive a single mother and her baby daughter to her extended family in Buenos Aires he struggles to shake off his initial resentment and the imposition these strangers make on his established solitude, but they gradually learn to co-exist and eventually connect with each other, mostly without dialogue, as the journey progresses. It's hard not to be lulled as the characters are by the sound of the road beneath the wheels and calmness of the forward motion, and similarly hard not to be won over by the softening of Germán de Silva's Ruben, confronted with memories of his own estranged son he never saw grow up as he interacts with the baby girl sat beside him. It's a film where little happens, but the magnitude of feelings hidden beneath the surface are truly compelling. Quite beautiful. 11 years 2 months ago

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