The new film from Argentine duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn effectively asserted its destiny with its title: How could the Venice festival programmers resist putting a film called “Officia…
” in their official competition? Some things just make sense, and by premiering in this way, Duprat and Cohn’s droll, dippy insider comedy neatly completes the last of its many, many in-jokes: Whatever life the film has beyond the festival circuit, it will never again play to so perfectly targeted an audience.
Not wasting any time with polite scene-setting, the film opens with some of its most savage jabs, as we survey the joyless aftermath of an 80th birthday bash for billionaire business mogul Humberto Suárez , a freeze-dried husk of a man suddenly concerned that he hasn’t left the world anything of lasting consequence.
He gives her carte blanche over casting the leads, so long as they are “the best.” Lola selects Felix Rivero , a dim international movie star who works largely in the mainstream, and Ivan Torres , a highly regarded but more snootily refined stage actor, believing their differences will lend the film interesting tension. She’s perhaps more correct than she had bargained for.
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