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I was almost not seeing this film, taking into account the negative comments of another user and the average of 6 it received from IMDB users. I went to the screening at Istanbul Film Festival because we had nothing better to do and left with great contentment that only a sincere, non-pretentious and lean film as this could provide. it reminded me of jarmusch's "stranger than paradise" with it's close to life approach. characters are real, acting is very good. it introduced me a fresh, new director from Argentina.

Two lesbians Mao and Lenin kidnap a shop girl Marcia and take off with her in a taxi. Before too long Marcia goes along with things including having sex with the Mao? (one of the lesbians).

This grainy black and white film has no interesting story no cinematography to speak of and no acting! This is the kind of film that might come out of a college class.

Save yourself the trouble and money and rent some good Argentine movies like The Aura or Live In Maid or Intimate Stories...vastly better than this ?? term project at a junior college.

Do not recommend.

A brilliant, ever-shifting intimately-scaled comedy-adventure movie exploring the complicated relationships among about ten characters, young and old, mostly women. It is by turns a bit scary and sadistic, gentle, bawdy, warmly sympathetic, mysterious, yet ultimately rather clear.

Shot in B&W on blown-up 16 mm, and reminiscent of Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise." An edgy celebration of life, humanity, and vulnerabilities. Well worth seeing.

'Tan de repente' (Suddenly) is wrongly considered a landmark in the so-called 'New Argentine Cinema'. Who establishes those landmarks? Certainly a bunch of foreign critics and festival prize-givers with a weakness for art-house films, especially if they come from third-world (poor) countries. This one suits them perfectly; it comes from Argentina (country that has been a lot in the map recently due to its huge economic crisis), it is shot in grainy black and white, it contains some raw dialogue, a realistic though stylized look (the image treatment reminds of the superior Stranger than Paradise) and some extreme nudity. The perfect cocktail. But to be honest with it, the film is dull as a film can be and has some of the most abominable performances seen recently on screen. The unimaginative ultra-slow pace, divertive storytelling and the keenness of portraying the ugly from a low point of view doesn't help either. Lerman's film may fool a good few abroad, with its exasperating still photo of country skies, high-tension wires and rear-view mirrors, but ultimately cannot hide the director's inability to reach any standard of storytelling. It is a pity that this is the kind of argentine film commercially released internationally, for the embarrassment of argentinians abroad and the regular filmgoer.

This is one of those movies you unintentionally discover and like. At least it is how i got to see Suddenly (Tan de repente). A friend who speaks Spanish and who traveled through South American countries invited me to see it. Being open for such experiments i went along and was pleasantly surprised.

Suddenly (Tan de repente) that would change the history of cinema or your percption of life, but it is a fine movie. The fact that i write this review more than five years after watching it, while still remembering some scenes, speaks to its favor.

My friend warned me that there are specific social and cultural peculiarities of South America that make this movie realistic. However, i think this remark was unnecessary. Suddenly (Tan de repente) speaks to the audience on a very basic, human, level.