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fest09.sffs.org - 4/6/2009

The Paranoids | San Francisco International Film Festival

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First-time feature director Gabriel Medina's wry comedy of errors is emblematic of the inventive and stylistically dexterous cinema emerging from Argentina. Luciano is an aimless loner who works children's birthday parties for a living. When not pretending to advance his screenplay, he partakes ...

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SFIFF52—The Paranoids (Los paranoicos)
The Evening Class — ... , Robert Koehler kindly granted that "Daniel Hendler's dry and underplayed perf as paranoid numero uno keeps pic afloat and helps its international profile" but ultimately dismissed the film as slack. Exactly. A slack film about a slacker. Failing to energize even the most spare of narratives resulted in my disgusted irritation by film's end. Miguel Pendas and I clearly did not watch the same movie. ...

SFIFF52—REVIEW of THE PARANOIDS (LOS PARNOICOS)
Twitch: Film & DVD Reviews (Work-Safe) — ... , Robert Koehler kindly granted that “Daniel Hendler’s dry and underplayed perf as paranoid numero uno keeps pic afloat and helps its international profile” but ultimately dismissed the film as slack.  Exactly.  A slack film about a slacker.  Failing to energize even the most spare of narratives resulted in my disgusted irritation by film’s end.  Miguel Pendas and I clearly did not watch the same movie. ...

3 more SFIFF52 REVIEWS: The Paranoids, Rudo y Cursi, Good Cats
Notes from Underdog. — ... Also a repost from GreenCine Daily. The Paranoids (Los paranoicos) Argentinean filmmaker Gabriel Medina's offbeat first feature moves a bit slow, but it's still inventive and enchanting enough to make one curious about his follow-up work. Essentially a character study, the film follows Luciano (Whisky's talented Daniel Hendler, looking a bit like a Uruguayan Paul Schneider), a quirkily neurotic, procrastinating screenwriter who earns a ...