NCLAFF: Rojo | Red

Free and open to the public.

Dir. by Benjamin Naishtat. Argentina. 2018. 109 min. In Spanish with English subtitles.

In the mid-seventies, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial city. In a restaurant, without any apparent reason, he starts insulting Claudio, a renowned lawyer. The community supports the lawyer and the stranger is humiliated and thrown out of the place. Later that night the stranger, who is determined to wreak a terrible vengeance, intercepts Claudio and his wife Susana. The lawyer then takes a path of no return involving death, secrets and silences.

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