ELEFANTE BLANCO/WHITE ELEPHANT (15) 2012 ARGENTINA
TRAPERO, PABLO £19.99
Drama follows the efforts of two priests to help the residents of a slum in Buenos Aires. When the project Nicolás (Jérémie Renier) was leading in the jungle comes to a bloody halt, his old friend and mentor Julián (Ricardo Darín) invites him to the ‘Villa Virgin’ shanty town to help commence construction of a hospital long left abandoned. As he begins to realise the extent of crime in the area thanks to a drug-dealing cartel, Nicolás finds himself questioning his faith which is made worse by the flourishing relationship between himself and Luciana (Martina Gusman), a young atheist social worker.
In Spanish with English subtitles
DVD available at – https://sites.google.com/site/worldonlinecinema/Home/spanish-latin-american-films-on-dvd
Irish Times review – http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/white-elephant-elefante-blanco-1.1372571
