Trenque Lauquen: Part I

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Trenque Lauquen: Part I

2023

2h 8m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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27 Reviews

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A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who -- mysteriously -- never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right -- but is anyone? This sudden run away becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of the heart of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village in the countryside, governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything, like the shadows that invade the world after the twilight hour.

Critics Consensus

Everything but ordinary, Laura Citarella's Trenque Lauquen offers a compelling enigma steered by a gallant heroine -- both equally hard to ignore.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Dec 23, 2023

5/5

There are similarities with the mumblecore science fiction of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Colour and The Endless, but Trenque Lauquen daringly stakes out its own spooky terrain.

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

Dec 7, 2023

5/5

Paredes gives the film a magnetic, if elusive, core, a seemingly fragile but unshakeably intrepid heroine — at once Alice in Wonderland, Holmesian sleuth, and feminist Tintin.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Dec 5, 2023

5/5

An extraordinary achievement in both narrative storytelling and thematic originality.

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William Stottor

FILMHOUNDS Magazine

Sep 3, 2024

5/5

On paper, Trenque Lauquen's chapters (12 in total) might seem thinly connected, but Citarella ensures the relationship between each is strong. The result is a fascinating and alluring dramatic epic that never once outstays its welcome.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

May 30, 2024

5/5

‘…an absorbing exploration of the connection between myth and reality in a supple world where there’s no scientific way of knowing which is which…describes a subversive world that’s carefully constructed and designed to evade any attempt to define it…’

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

Jan 4, 2024

Laura Citarella's indescribable, incandescent two-part saga of obsessive love, monsters, and the end of the world.

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Luis C

@willowking Dec 11, 2025

The masterwork of the 2020s

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Synopsis

A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who -- mysteriously -- never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right -- but is anyone? This sudden run away becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of the heart of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village in the countryside, governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything, like the shadows that invade the world after the twilight hour.

Director: Laura Citarella
Producer: Ingrid Pokropek, Ezequiel Pierri, Laura Citarella, Agustín Mendilaharzu, Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás
Screenwriter: Laura Citarella, Laura Paredes
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 21, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 2h 8m

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