SYNOPSICS
El dedo (2011) is a Spanish movie. Sergio Teubal has directed this movie. Fabián Vena,Gabriel Goity,Martín Seefeld,Mariana Briski are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. El dedo (2011) is considered one of the best Comedy movie in India and around the world.
In the tradition of O' Brother Where Art Thou and the Irish Waking Ned, and set in a wonderfully photographic, Southamerican environment comes this comedy. Hilarious characters pulling together to make a dream come true, our hero's index finger is the excuse that drives the villagers to discover a murder, turn around the election to the town's mayor, renew their Christian's faith, build new love relationships. In other words wake up the quiet Latin American town of Cerro Colorado. Who knows where these people will get with the help of the magic finger?.
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El dedo (2011) Reviews
The Finger is a warmly humorous film about a murdered man's finger and the way the digit becomes the oracle by which the townspeople make all of their important decisions.
This amusing little film from South America is full of whimsy and charm. The director could have presented the local inhabitants as being backward, superstitious or overly naive. Instead the story unfolds very naturally as a result of the knowledge, respect and affection the town's people have for each other. The character of the murdered man was admired before his death, and even after the murder is solved, the "miracle" of the way the murdered man's finger influences the fate of his murderer is seen as evidence of the superior character of the victim. It is a sweet, quirky film that I found to be highly enjoyable and can highly recommend.
Failure
This movie is based on the disconcerting premise that all 500 inhabitants of a small provincial town in Argentina are superstitious halfwits. The script is a combination of bargain basement García Márquez with every offensive cliché on small towns and their people. Argentina's return to democracy in 1983 was not, as this movie implies, a farce including dead candidates running for office. Production values are good and the actors do as best as they can with the material, which includes some pretty awful lines, but the final result is of no value. If you want an authentic feeling for rural Argentina (including superstitions) see Carlos Sorin's "El Camino de San Diego".