Carancho [videorecording] / Cine Argentino Matanza Cine, Finecut, Patagonik, Ad Vitam, L90 Producciones con el apoyo de INCAA-Programa IberMedia presentan ; una película de Pablo Trapero ; dirección, Pablo Trapero ; guión, Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Pablo Trapero ; productor, Pablo Trapero.

[Buenos Aires] : Matanza Cine SRL ; [Culver City, CA] : Distributed by Strand Releasing, c2011.

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

22 deaths a day, 683 a month, over 8,000 a year, 100,000 over the last decade. In Argentina, traffic accidents are decimating those 35 and under. Festering beneath Argentina's crime-plagued, class-divided society is the quasi-lawless realm of motor vehicle accidents and their aftermath. Sosa is an ambulance-chasing lawyer. He's lost his license, so now he works the late-night streets of Buenos Aires, signing up injured clients for a predatory firm that will pay them perhaps a quarter, or a fifth, of what the insurance companies pay. Luján is an overworked young doctor who takes ambulance shifts for extra money. Her level of sleeplessness and chemical intake renders her less than desirable for performing emergency life-and-death surgery, but to Sosa Luján seems to be a ministering angel who can redeem his sleazoid existence. While Luján and Sosa can fall in love, the more vital question is can they escape the grim logic of their situation, evade responsibility for their own actions, and outrun a machine determined to destroy them?

Images / Video & Film

Spanish

December 13, 2011

Direccion de fotografia, Julián Apezteguia ; montaje, Ezequiel Borovinsky, Pablo Trapero ; direccion de arte, Mercedes Alfonsin ; vestuario, Marisa Urruti.

Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber, Jose Luis Arias, Fabio Ronzano, Loren Acuña, Gabriel Almirón, José Espeche.

DVD, NTSC; widescreen presentation.

MPAA Rating: Not rated; this film contains mature subject matter.