“A singular jewel…
A film that crackles with an inordinate fondness
for storytelling.””
TRENQUE LAUQUEN
A film by Laura Citarella
(Argentina, 2022, 262 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
In her dazzling and enormously pleasurable new opus, Laura Citarella takes viewers on a limitless, mercurial journey through stories nested within stories set in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen (“Round Lake”) and centered on the strange disappearance of a local academic named Laura (Laura Paredes). Through initial inquiries by two colleagues—older boyfriend Rafael and a driver named Ezequiel with whom Laura had grown secretly close—we learn about her recent discoveries, including a new, unclassified species of flower and a series of old love letters hidden at the local library, which may help track her down. Yet as flashbacks and anecdotes pile up, we—and the film’s intrepid investigators—begin to realize that this intricately structured tale is larger and stranger than we could have imagined.
Citarella, a producer of the equally remarkable shape-shifting epic La Flor, has confidently crafted a series of interlocked romantic, biological, and ecological mysteries that create parallels between past lives and present dangers, invoke the rapture of obsessive pursuit, and salute the human need to find personal freedom and happiness. Trenque Lauquen is told in 12 chapters spread across two feature films.
New York, NY: Film at Lincoln Center, opens Friday, April 21
Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, screens Sunday, April 23
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, screens Monday, April 24 and Tuesday, April 25:
Larkspur, CA: Lark Theater, April 28
Los Angeles, CA: American Cinematheque, April 29
Los Angeles, CA: Lumiere Cinema, May 20-21
Jacksonville, FL: Sun-Ray Cinema, Opens June 3
Nashville, TN: Belcourt Theatre, June 18
Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, June 22
Seattle, WA: Northwest Film Forum, July 15
San Francisco, CA: Roxie Theater, July 16
Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, August 6
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Cinematheque, August 25
Brooklyn, NY: BAM Film, September 3
Watch the trailer:
