The Fipresci-winning Los Muertos (Cannes, 2004) places Lisandro Alonso firmly in the ranks of Argentina's best. Alonso achieved much with his 2001 debut feature, La Libertad, but this powerful and primal film is unequalled in its creation of atmosphere and uncompromising realism. Masterful long takes combine with a beautifully restrained narrative to deliver filmmaking at its best.

Vargas is a man who has been incarcerated for murder. On his release, he makes a journey through the remote wilderness in search of his daughter, engaging with others only as circumstances dictate. The past is largely unknown in Los Muertos and yet it is everywhere, haunting and shaping both Vargas and the film's action. The towering natural environment diminishes the self-contained Vargas, evoking a sense of his isolation and inevitable return to the past.

"Los Muertos is a self-confident and daring film with an utterly original visual language... Right up until the end, one continues to wonder whether Vargas is a man of silent resignation or of latent bloodlust." - Rotterdam Film Festival

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