Review by guisreis

While it is not obvious in the beginning inside the jungle on Misiones near triple frontier with a jaguar roaming nearby, it is increasingly clear as this Argentine-Brazilian movie on land conflict advances, particularly in its second half, that it is a Western. Not only due the script, with powerful and violent gangsters robbing a rural estate from a humble hardworking family, a mysterious stranger engaging himself in protecting it against them, defensive shooting strategy, rape and duel. Also in edition, cinematography and even costumes (although the story is not in XIXth century in the United States, but in contemporary or recent past in verdant and watery Northeastern Argentina), the film explores many traits of the genre, with large face close-ups, shotguns, neckwear and wide-brimmed hats. The movie is technically well made, with extraordinary actors such as Chico Diaz, Alice Braga and Gael García Bernal.