“Rejtman’s comic masterpiece follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a cab driver, a rock musician, a flight attendant, and a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication. The Magic Gloves came out in the wake of Argentina’s devastating financial crisis, and it’s a movie fixated on rotten investments, thin wages, and bad deals. It’s also, despite all that, one of Rejtman’s funniest films, peppered with colorful secondary characters, suffused with a terse, prickly sympathy for its heroes, and alive to the mystery and charm of the modern urban world.” —Film at Lincoln Center
THE MAGIC GLOVES / LOS GUANTES MÁGICOS
A film by Martín Retjman
(Argentina, 2003, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on MUBI
