Glaxo Review Benjamn Naishtats Period Drama Revisits Argentinas Dirty War In a NotQuiteThere Period Drama
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News Summary
- Writer-director Benjamín Naishtat once again considers Argentina's history of state-sponsored violence.
- Adapting Hernán Ronsino’s short novel of the same name, "Glaxo" is a drama about friendship and betrayal.
- Despite generous production values, this adaptation never quite fires.
- The movie gets a lot of humorous mileage out of the visitors’ atrocious Spanish pronunciation, but they’re more than comic relief and their fate is part of the film ’s climax.
In Glaxo, Benjamn Naishtat once again considers Argentinas history of statesponsored violence.
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