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that might have gone as dark as something like “The Wicker Man” or “Wake in Fright.” Diego Fernandez Pujol’s second feature (following “Darwin’s Corner” eight years ago) has been a home-turf theatrical hit, though as an export item its pleasing but modest impact is more likely to attract home-format sales. Remake rights might also prove a viable commodity.

Martin Slipak, whose harried, clean-cut Everyman recalls the likes of Paul Rudd or Ben Stiller here, plays ambitious young white-collar worker Claudio Tapia. Having just “solved” a big claim case for his employer, Santa Marta Insurance Co., the appraiser is rewarded with a remote border town as his own dedicated claims territory. But the retiring agent he’ll replace smirks that this particular assignment is no promotion, and that Claudio “wouldn’t be the first stranger to get his ass kicked there.”

After a long bus ride from Montevideo, he alights in the sleepy burg,...

Stars: Luis Fernandez, Roberto Birindelli, María Cecilia Sanchez, Mimi Lazo, Ramiro Meneses, Henry Twohy, Alex O´Dogherty | Written by Pedro García Ríos, Frank Spano | Directed by Frank Spano

At first there seems to be a whole lot going on in Humanpersons but when put in simpler terms it is about a blackmailed guy having to smuggle a human organ from Latin America to the United States. A Latin America he is returning to after thirty five years.

Maybe unsurprisingly, with its ‘Narcos’ tone and style of story, Humanpersons has a slow pace to it. Despite being set in a dangerous and underground world of crime, drugs and human organ trafficking, there’s not a whole lot of exciting action. Mainly just alot of talking. Of course, this doesn’t have to be a bad thing, plenty of films and filmmakers have been great based on dialogue-heavy movies. But the script...