“Rojo” – It’s 1975 in Argentina. Looking back at history, but looking forward within writer/director Benjamin Naishtat’s film, a right-wing coup will overthrow Argentina’s President Isabel Peron in a move called the “National Reorganization Process” in March 1976. So, in 1975, the country’s politics are uncertain, but life still goes on. Adults work. Kids learn in school. Families enjoy harmony and also fall into disagreements. Households pay their mortgages. Couples go out to dinner. It’s a lovely early evening, and Claudio (Dario Grandinetti) – a prominent lawyer who everyone in…
‘Rojo’ is an unconventional, smoldering slow burn
