Trenque Lauquen: Part I

Released Apr 21, 2023

2h 8m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

List

96%

Tomatometer

27 Reviews

71%

Audience Score

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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.

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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

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.

Rated: 5/5

Dec 23, 2023

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

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.

Rated: 5/5

Dec 7, 2023

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

An extraordinary achievement in both narrative storytelling and thematic originality.

Rated: 5/5

Dec 5, 2023

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

‘…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…’

Rated: 5/5

May 30, 2024

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

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

Jan 4, 2024

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Christopher Machell

CineVue

Argentinian director Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen is an enigmatic, semi-absurdist puzzle that defies the allure of narrative solution in favour of the liberation of loose ends.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 11, 2023

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Crios

very little drama or mystery or thriller

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/06/23

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Emmanuel V

The path is more important than the destination, the characters are fluid and beautiful. An exciting, funny, sensitive film with a remarkable performance by Laura Paredes.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/10/23

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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