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Night Watch [2005] [DVD]

Gonzalo Heredia , Mariana Anghileri , Edgardo Cozarinsky    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Gonzalo Heredia, Mariana Anghileri, Rafael Ferro, Darío Tripicchio, Gregory Dayton
  • Directors: Edgardo Cozarinsky
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: TLA Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Aug 2006
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000EGDBHY
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,756 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Edgardo Cozarinsky directs this drama. Victor (Gonzalo Heredia) is a soulful hustler working the mean streets of Buenos Aires. After a seies of shocking and violent confrontations, he decides to leave his dangerous profession and sets off across the city on a soul-searching odyssey to trace a lost love.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What lies beneath the obvious? 10 Aug 2011
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"Night Watch" is not as obvious as one initially believes, and if Spanish is not your first language, then it may be easy to miss the subtext. On the surface it would seem that the movie is merely following an ordinary day/night in the life of street hustler Victor, who is both emotionally naive and well experienced in his trade. The audience moves with him from one client to another, and experiences a night that never seems to end. Without being able to identify the cause or reason, there is an ever present sense that not all is well. Under the surface there seems to be something much darker. Initially it lurks beneath that surface emerging only every now in then as acts of violence directed against an unaware Victor. Yet as the morning approaches that dark and sinister presence becomes more obvious, almost as if it needs the night to exist and day brings about its demise.

Without revealing too much. The audience is made aware of a special night which begins on the 1st of November and ends on the 2nd at day break. On that night the dead are allowed to return and interact with the living, so that they may take those they loved on earth (whilst alive) back into the netherworld with them. Victor is that person, and one is never sure of which of his suitors are living and those which are not. Some seem determined to cause his death, whilst others seem to be motivated by selfish emotion and desire.

The challenge thus becomes whether Victor will survive the night. Your frustration as the observer is that like Victor, you are never able to distinguish the living from the dead. Equally frustrating is Victor's naivety and loveable nature, which seems to make him more vulnerable than one would expect from an established street hustler.

A very clever story, well told and totally different once you understand what is going on.
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1.0 out of 5 stars sorry, just didn't get it. 19 May 2008
Format:DVD
we watched the whole film from start to finish and nothing happened. if you are looking for a film to send you to sleep, then this should do it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Night on the Streets of Buenos Aires 9 Jun 2006
By Grady Harp - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
Edgardo Cozarinsky is one of Argentina's most respected film makers and this elegiac nocturnal mood piece 'Ronda nocturna' is a stunning little foray into exploring the people who work by night in a big city, that big city could be anywhere in the world. This is not a film for those who need a storyline or those who aren't willing to go with the flow of the mind of the director in mixing the real with the imagined. But for this viewer this is a mesmerizing theme and variations that magnetically draws us into one evening on the calles de Buenos Aires.

Victor (the fine twenty-three year old actor Gonzalo Heredia) is a hustler and works the streets from dusk until dawn, plying his various wares (drugs, his body, his camaraderie) on one particular November evening. He is 'protected' by a police Inspector (Gregory Dayton) in return for physical favors, shares turf with Carlitos (Diego Trerotola) who spends time in clubs with him and takes him to the 'better venues' of his trade including an ambassador's party where Viktor steals money, catches up on old times with a hustler turned taxi driver Mario (Rafael Ferro) with whom cruises the streets in the taxi talking with transvestites and hookers in a series of warm exchanges and whom he beds and has a threatened experience, narrowly escapes death at the push of a strange woman, befriends a street florist, revives an old girlfriend acquaintance....many things happen and nothing really happens. There is no story here except what happens to a pretty kid on the streets; no preaching, no climaxes, no major dramatic turns are developed and we leave Viktor as dawn rises over the city and his working time is over.

The cinematography by Javier Miquelez is brilliant as is the subtle tango-influenced musical score by Carlos Franzetti. Gonzalo Heredia carries this film with sophisticated acting skills and despite the fact that we are never sure just how much of what we are seeing is real, imagined, drug induced, or remembered, we still care deeply for this quiet little charmer of a lad. His moments with the street florist are the stuff of film magic. Edgardo Cozarinsky knows his craft and seeing 'Night Watch' makes us want to explore all of his films. Highly recommended for lovers of art films. Grady Harp, June 06
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars While it doesn't fit into your typical Hollywood template......... 29 May 2006
By JJ - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
...this film was still very poignant. There is no action crescendo, no high drama with a nice and neat ending. However, I found the movie to be very interesting and entertaining in it's own simplistic way.

The protagonist is very likable and does a great job in this role. Although there is no action and the storyline is somewhat linear I found that the protagonist had a lot of depth and his good nature pulled the film along.

There are instances when the movie takes a turn towards the surreal and the audience is left to ponder whether these are visions of an overactive imagination or perhaps small glimpses into the past or future.

Although this movie will most probably not appeal to the mainstream it is an interesting view of what life might be like on the streets of Argentina.
5.0 out of 5 stars A GEM OF A MOVIE 14 July 2009
By Alfredo R. Villanueva - Published on Amazon.com
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A beautiful film detailing the seamy side of Buenos Aires nightlife, the kind that flies under the radar of most tourists. Cozarinsky is a great director; a pity there are no more of his movies on DVD. Heredia is a stunning Garcia Bernal look-alike in more ways than just his looks. I wish for a movie where they would play brothers! Some complain about no plot; in the picaresque mode, we follow the protagonist, not the story line, since he provides it. The best accolade. I rented it first, and I have just added it to my DVD collection.
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