Philip French 

Las Acacias – review

Actions speak louder than words in Pablo Giorgelli's uneventful Argentinian road movie, writes Philip French
  
  

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Las Acacias: 'not exactly The Wages of Fear'. Photograph: PR

In this widely praised minimalist road movie a middle-aged Argentinian long-distance lorry driver gives a young Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter a lift from southern Paraguay to Buenos Aires. Virtually nothing is said in the first half hour and little in the next 50 minutes. There are no interesting encounters, the scenery is unremarkable. But he gradually takes to the child, offers them water to drink and does a little nursing. Not exactly The Wages of Fear.

 

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