Rojo

"When everyone gets silent, there are no innocents"

2018 1h 46m ES

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★6.1TMDB · 68

DramaMysteryThriller

Synopsis

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A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

“When everyone gets silent, there are no innocents”

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Cast

Darío Grandinetti
Claudio
Andrea Frigerio
Susana
Alfredo Castro
Detective Sinclair
Diego Cremonesi
The Hippie / Dieguito
Laura Grandinetti
Paula
Claudio Martínez Bel
Vivas
Susana Pampín
Professor
Rafael Federman
Santiago

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Benjamín Naishtat
Writers: Benjamín Naishtat
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 6 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Benjamín Naishtat, shot by Pedro Sotero. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Vincent van Warmerdam. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Andrés Quaranta shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Darío Grandinetti and Andrea Frigerio and Alfredo Castro carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "When everyone gets silent, there are no innocents".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt8956390 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Benjamín Naishtat directs. Pedro Sotero behind the camera. Vincent van Warmerdam scores. Andrés Quaranta cuts. Produced in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland. Dialogue in Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 8 years ago.
2International production across 6 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland.
3Directed by Benjamín Naishtat, shot by Pedro Sotero. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Vincent van Warmerdam. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Andrés Quaranta shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Darío Grandinetti and Andrea Frigerio and Alfredo Castro carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "When everyone gets silent, there are no innocents".
8IMDB entry: tt8956390 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 68 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "small town", "husband wife relationship", "detective", "1970s".

The technical file

Cinematography: Pedro Sotero
Original score: Vincent van Warmerdam
Editing: Andrés Quaranta
Costume design: Jam Monti
Makeup / hair: Dolores Giménez
Sound: Simon Apostolou
Runtime: 106 min · 1h 46m
Status: Released
Box office: $557,092
Original language: ES
IMDB: Rojo (2018)

Awards

Silver Shell for Best Director

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Danybur2020-12-22
★ 9/10
Through the story of a lawyer (led by Darío Grandinetti) facing an unexpected event, Benjamín Naishtat articulates a powerful political policeman and a true sociological essay on the miseries of a town in an unnamed province of Argentina in 1975 and its apparent normality at a turbulent stage in its history. And with great cinematography. It is 1975. Claudio (Darío Grandinetti) is the Doctor, a prestigious lawyer from a town in an unnamed province of Argentina, married to Susana (Andrea Frigerio) and with a teenage daughter. A tense incident with a stranger (Diego Cremonesi) in a town restaurant will be the first in a series of events that will call into question the Doctor's calm. Actually, the first scene of the film is another, a powerful fixed shot over a house, in a scene of enormous eloquence. For those who do not know, or do not remember, in 1975 Isabel Perón ruled and Argentina was already devastated by the kidnappings and murders of the Triple A (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina), a parapolice organization linked to the Government, in a true advance of what that it would be state terrorism established by the civil-military dictatorship that overthrew Isabel in 1976. Red is a remarkable and disturbing film. Its plot suffers an apparent drift by situations that seem disconnected but that in reality are integrated into a powerful and implacable X-ray of an era: violence (sometimes left out of the field), disappearances, dispossession, looting of the victims, the swindle, the silence, the imposture, the impunity. But all under a layer of apparent normality and within the framework of a province intervened to "restore" it. Naishtat's film could be defined as a sociological and political black cop. Each scene is a necessary note (and never underlined) on the general picture, including the successful scene on a beach in Mar del Plata. From the formal point of view, the filmic recreation of the time is remarkable, with that tone between faded and sepia that dominates photography and its red titles. There is a great use of still shots and beautiful wide shots in desert locations. Grandinetti's very good performance, while the apparent over-acting of a character who later appears in charge of Alfredo Castro (the actor from I'm afraid of a bullfighter), also has its justification. The school device could not be absent in this story, when a teacher (Susana Pampín) rehearses with Claudio's daughter and other classmates the dance Los Salvajes from the opera Las Indias Galantes by Rameau (a luxury of the soundtrack) for an act school and what he says to put them in position for the scene, in what constitutes a disturbing stagin

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