Buena vida (Delivery)

Hernan (Ignacio Toselli) is a standard guy who works delivering with his little motorbike in the middle of the recent Argentinian crisis. His life seems to be boring and sad, now that his family moved to Spain. But he meets a girl, Pato (Moro Alighieri), at a gas station and he falls in love at first sight. She need a place to stay, so he offers to rent one of his rooms for her. After a while, they start a relationship, and Hernan seems to be living a dream. But the dream is about to get short, when he discovers that the girl has some secrets that he can't stand. Everything is going to become awkward when Pato's family moves in with them, and they don't seem to feel guilty about it. The greatest problem is that Hernan is to good to fight for what belongs to him, and in a couple of days, all the world seems to be against him. Pato is enigmatic. She has secrets everywhere, she seems to be too weak to stand all the problems and finds the easiest way. Sometimes she feel bad, but most times we don't know what the hell is doing. The movie has his best moments in the performances of Hernan, Pato and Venancio (Oscar Nuñez), and we get to laugh when Beto (the great Ariel Staltari of Okupas) and Seba (Pablo Ribba) appear. We are going to feel impotence from the beginning till the end, because of the problems that Hernan can't solve. Good acting, great script, marvelous reflex of the crisis in Argentina, where "good people like you (Hernan), we can't find anymore in this harmed country", as Venancio use to say. 7/10

This film, the first in De Cesare career, remember me on "Brutti, sporchi e cattivi" one of the greatest Scola films. It's a simply history of two young people of a suburban place in Buenos Aires. A simply "boy meets girl" one. But the family of the girl came to town and the plot developed to a "grotesco". The situations are growing to a intense drama and black comedy. De Cesare make the film so transparent, so simply and put his look on characters and relationships. He made it with a naturalist view, and a lot of great actor's works. Ignacio Toselli simplify the work and "Venancio" make me remember to Nino Manfredi in Scola's films. The script by De Cesare and Hans Garrino is simple and perfect at the same time. This film win the 19th Mar del Plata film Festival in Best film and best script.

When I read the plot of the movie I thought it had good potential so I gave it a go. Unfortunately I was a little disappointed by it because I found it not funny as I expected it. There are few good scenes like when Hernan finds out about the pastry machines inside his house, used by the parents of his girlfriend to continue their business, who moved in because homeless. The movie is more bitter than sweet, showing the hardship of life and everyday tough situations who many people have to deal with. I must say that it's a good portrait of a country like Argentina, which had a difficult economic problems in its recent past, but besides this I can't find any strengths of the movie.

He works as a motorcycle messenger, his wages suck, his boss is a bastard, life stinks... Thank goodness his beautiful black-haired girlfriend is waiting for him at home. Yeah, she's waiting for him with her parents and with a daughter he didn't even know that existed.

Looks like the plot for a crazy comedy, doesn't it? But let me tell you: there's nothing funny about Argentina and the situation of that country which seems to be sinking into a bottomless pit. "Buena Vida Delivery" has a clear message in it: if life gets hard it can always get harder. It ain't easy to be a good person in a country that's full of charlatans and thieves, 'cause you'll probably end up penniless.

For those who decide to see this movie I must tell you that it will leave you with a bittersweet taste in your mouth (that's the way reality is). Is a good film with one or two actors that aren't good enough (something that's pretty rare in Argentinian cinema, for their actors use to be very fresh and unaffected).

*My rate: 7/10

The storyline was a little bit slow, ordinary and I thought predictable. But after 20-30 minutes of watching, started happening something unexpected for the main character. His life turned into nightmare. He thought that his life would be decent and peaceable when he met a girl from delivery service but she made him just troubles. What he was going to do and what happened next was interesting. This is a movie about ordinary people who were just trying to outlive another day in their way of life. The movie may had some flaws in direction and acting but don't worry about it. This movie is good and give it a chance. This is just good life drama with some elements of comedy.