Retorno

As "Recurrence" (2022 release from Argentina; 115 min.; original title: "Pipa") opens, a woman is found dead. We then go to "A Few Hours Earlier", and we get to know a rich family in a remote rural area of Argentina. There is a big party at the family mansion, and one of the staff people, Samanta, is the woman found dead some hours later... What exactly happened here? At this point we are 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this is the latest from Argentinean writer-director Alejandro Montiel ("Intuition"). Here he intends to bring a crime thriller. It's not at all clear for quite a while that the key character is a woman named Manuela, apparently an erstwhile cop. I kept waiting for things to pick up, and kept waiting, and waiting... I could not get into it whatsoever and gave up an hour into the movie, sorry. It wasn't until afterward, when I read up on this movie, that I realized that "Recurrence" is a sequel of sorts to a prior movie (20178s "Perdida", or "Loss") starring that same character Manuela (and played by the same actress, Luisana Lopilato). Even though "Recurrence" is supposed to be a stand-alone film, it's pretty clear to me that having seen "Perdida" would've answered a lot of questions I had about the lead character, and would also have given me a much better context within which to appreciate "Recurrence".

"Recurrence" recently premiered on Netflix, where it was "suggested" to me based on my viewing habits. Typically I trust these suggestions quite a bit, but in this instance, I wish I was aware that "Recurrence" comes after "Loss" and "Loss" (also on Netflix) should've been recommended to me before "Recurrence". Viewer beware!

Dissonant, discordant, disjointed noises that vary between neo spaghetti western and '60's outer space music overlaying any dialog, which isn't too much of a problem since the dialog is stilted and amateurish anyway.

Too many plot holes and improbable situations coupled with a childish attempt at being a message movie about native south americans. I don't want to know who scored this or wrote this or acted in this, aside from the two young actors playing the rich kids, who earned my grudging rating of two stars, everyone and everything was abysmal from start to finish.

Another unviewable movie coming from Netflix.

You may wonder what it takes to get fired as person responsible for content at Netflix. Because one after the other shipwreck is launched.

Im only 30 minutes in and its enough. The scenes transitions makes no sense, its all over the place but going nowhere at the same time. Music is weird and cheap, its just overall confusing. I cant judge the whole movie but 30 minutes was enough to call it quits.

There's 10 minutes in the movie where it's a subplot about native Americans and it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. What the hell. That makes zero sense.