After sexing things up a bit in 2016’s (co-directed) “Taekwondo,” wherein a bunch of underdressed, hardbodied men frolicked during a country retreat, indie Argentine helmer Marco Berger is back on …
), his coworker at a woodworking machine shop, invites him to move into his inherited flat in a nondescript Buenos Aires suburb after another housemate leaves. It’s a convenient and congenial-enough arrangement, with shy Gabe casually accepted into the circle of guy pals who routinely stop over to watch TV and drink beer.
When they’re alone, however, there is no mistaking the frisson between Gabe and Juan. Since his more humorously tilted debut feature “Plan B” a decade ago, Berger has been expert at charging the space between characters with erotic tension. It takes over half an hour for the dam to finally burst between his lead characters here, and afterward Juan seems dismissive, even cavalier about their interlude. But after a second tryst, their dynamic grows more intimate, even boyfriend-ly.
Nonetheless, there’s an unforced poignance to this tale, whose surface aesthetics are as beguilingly simple as the emotions beneath are complexly conflicted. Indeed, an economy of presentation works so well here that the rare intrusion of Pedro Irusta’s solo piano score feels gratuitous.
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