★★★1/2 Nicolás Goldbart gave us a very funny movie called Phase 7 a few years ago, about a world plunged into fierce quarantines by a strange virus. This film, full of tributes to cinephiles (especially to the world of John Carpenter), shows a filmmaker with the precision to narrate stories full of black humor mixed with costumbrism and fantasy. Something like Halloween meets Esperando la Carroza and, here, meets Together they are dynamite. A screenwriter with a mediocre life is spied on and harassed by a strange organization and gets together with a rather violent friend to solve something that is getting out of hand. It’s not a perfect film, but it’s a fun film, which at this point in the cinema is no small thing, and it goes decidedly to the extreme without caring too much about good manners. It never ceases, in times of fear and mediocrity, to be refreshing. A film made for the pleasure of making a film, moreover, and that’s not a small thing.
