A noir-ish whirlpool around an epileptic taxidermist (Ricardo Darín), dragging down the withdrawn daydreamer into an unmanageable crime of opportunity. The second film of the Argentine director Fabián Bielinsky, as much a character study as a caper film, is more measured and mature than his flashy first, Nine Queens, but it was also to be his last. In the year after its completion he expired of a heart attack at age forty-seven. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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