Rotten
Medina has taken a series of vignettes and fashioned them into a feature film as aimless as Luciano's life.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
The Paranoids
"I'm Luciano Gauna, I've been a damn coward all my life."
2008 · 1h 45m · Unrated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Gabriel Medina
Overview
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia. Manuel is everything he is not and him trying to be helpful in his career and with women, only worsens the conflict.
Director and cast
- Gabriel Medina Director
- Daniel Hendler as Luciano Gauna
- Martín Feldman as Martin Sherman
- Walter Jakob as Manuel Sinovieck
- Jazmín Stuart as Sofia
- Veronica Perdomo as Rocío
- Cecilia Gispert as Marta
- Wu-chao Ting as Wonk
- Daniel Jeng as Hijo de Wonk
- Fausto Collado as Portero
- María Carolina Guzmán as Mucama
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
45%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Plays like a dawdling sitcom that strings together small incidents into not very much.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Wan Argentine comedy proves that not all slackers are inherently interesting.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
With his feature debut, writer-director Gabriel Medina stops blessedly short of making a big generational statement, but The Paranoids does a fine job of evoking youth culture and attitudes in Buenos Aires...
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten
Medina is simply content to let the film's sub-Jarmusch vignettes slow-fizzle to their finishes.
David Fear, Time Out New York
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