2016 · comedy · drama · dark comedy
The Distinguished Citizen
Directed by Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn1h 58m2016
After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worst idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!
Our read: The Distinguished Citizen (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive comedy · drama · dark comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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