Argentina

What saves the film from cliched sentimentality is Coogan’s note-perfect performance. His comic timing and light, sustained pitch are excellent as always.

… exists on a similar bicurious wavelength as films like Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, mixing the former’s rosy recollections of past

... hollows out the possibility of communicating real intimacy and leaves only the poetics of the anxious mundane. Still, it’s mesmerizing in the most cinematic of ways.

A Ravaging Wind begins with an arresting and stunningly realised opening scene – so good that you wonder if the rest if the rest of the film can live up

Fluid hand-held camera work keeps this story moving, although it does plod along towards a grisly conclusion.

… finds its feet in its simplicity, harking back to teenage years and young love and all of the complicated feelings that go along with it. It reminds us of

... just bucket-loads of spew and splatter.

The scenario is ripe for lampooning, but whether the joke sustains itself for a nearly two hour running time is another matter.