Long Time No Sleep

  • Comedy
11/5/2022
90

Storyline

A sunny morning in Buenos Aires. All seems quiet, but then an odd race begins: a variety of people are after a backpack. A little army of seekers surprises us at every corner. Suddenly, a lonely bureaucrat (Mapache) is involved in this adventure, and new, mysterious and unknown people start to populate his life, all running around the popular Argentinian city to obtain the backpack which seems to be crucial to his own fate, according to the words of his new accomplice, magician and tarot reader Luminitsia.

Revenue:
$2,376

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      Reviews

      • Brent_Marchant

        Its true what they say about not being able to judge a book by its cover or a movie by its trailer or description. Such is the case with writer-director Agustín Godoys debut feature, a trainwreck of a film that makes virtually no sense from start to finish. As a sort of screwball comedy (a term I use loosely) in which multiple characters are trying to get their hands on a mysterious locked backpack, the film follows them as they relentlessly pursue one another throughout the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in a race to get the goods. In some ways, it loosely follows the narrative format of comedy classics like Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) or Whats Up, Doc? (1972) only with a lot less skill (or humor, for that matter). Its plot line ...

        April 19, 2024

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