The Clan

2016/09/13

Well underplayed drama about running family business.... of kidnapping and murder. One that creeps along without any low points or exceptional heights. Simply a good film about a psycho and his closest.

A gripping drama based on true events. The interest for me was in the changing family dynamics and the question of who was culpable.

El Clan ist die wahre Geschichte der Puccio Familie aus einem Vorort von Buenos Aires. Der Patriarch Arquiemdes war früher ein ranghohes Mitglied der Junta. Wir schreiben aber das Jahr 1985 und Argentinien ist seit zwei Jahre eine Demokratie (über die Vergangenheit der Militär-Diktatur schweigt man). Sohn Peter ist ein Held in seinem Rugby Verein... mehr auf cinegeek.de

Looks stylish, but it's actually lousily directed at almost every way you look at it -- as a character study, a period piece or the typical Argentinian "provoking and shocking and funny" with pop cinema -- non-linear, parallel sections, Kinks. The story is interesting enough to keep things up, but it never gets a decent treatment by Trapero. The visual solutions seem obtuse and showy, though -- like the sequence showing a sex scene and a torture session through consecutive shots.