Liverpool (2008)

Director: Lisandro Alonso
Writers: Salvador Roselli, Lisandro Alonso
Cast: Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera & Giselle Irrazabal
Release Date: 30 October 2008 (Argentina)
Awards: 1 win
User Rating: 6,6/10

Review: "With less than 80 shots and faithful towards an idea of cinema, the fourth Lisandro Alonso film repeats the best of his previous works and goes toward a new territory, let's say, a poetic minimalist narrative, complex and simple at the same time, but always plethora of many readings. A man called Farrel works in a big ship, a sailor, of course. When he arrives in the southern city, Usuhuaia, he asks for permission to his captain to go somewhere; it seems to be her mother lives in a small village, not so far from there. But, there's a secret agenda which is about family matters but not strictly maternal issues, an undisclosed purpose till the very end, in which a narrative twist will be revealed through a "fetish" key-chain with a name on it. It's a movie about solitude and the longing for otherness, although it's also a portray of human beings as existential animals deeply rooted in landscapes, in this case the majestic cold mountains from Tierra del Fuego. Formally daring, there're many passages in this film which can be seen as paintings in movement, although it's a narrative decision its bravest choice: his main character, Farrel, will leave us 30 minutes before the film ends. "
Written by Roger Alan Koza (imdb.com)