26/05/12….’slick & polished’ film noir coming to Thame Cinema

NEXT FILm – Thame Cinema 4 All – Saturday, May 26; Argentina 2010, 107 minutes, 15 certificate, Directed by Pablo Trapero, Starring Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber.

There are, reputedly, 120,000 people injured on Argentinian roads each year. This sad state of affairs has given rise to a deeply corrupt and bleakly opportunistic industry exploiting the injured and bereaved, involving unscrupulous lawyers, the police, and the medical profession. Such is the backdrop to this slick and polished thriller / film noir.

Darin (familiar to those who enjoyed The Secret in Their Eyes) is Soza, a disreputable lawyer working as an ambulance chaser for a shady organisation called the Foundation, ostensibly a charity facilitating insurance payouts to the injured, but in fact a corrupt group making dirty deals with all concerned and pocketing most of the money. So dedicated is he to his work, that he persuades desperate people to throw themselves in front of traffic for the promise of a payout, tipping off complicit ambulance crews who also want a slice. One evening he meets Gusman?s Luj