Intimate Stories

• It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.

• The name of Hugo Colace ought to be known to the film world. He is the cinematographer of an Argentinean film called Intimate Stories. Not since some Tibetan films have I seen such vastness, sparsely inhabited, almost ringing with immensity.

• For those who like every day stories that connect people to one another, this is a simple, yet very heartwarming film. Gorgeous shots of Patagonia, Argentina, with its almost infinite roads, desert plains, villages in the middle of nowhere. Recommended for dog lovers.

• The title does not deceive: the stories told here are minimal, without the slightest consequence for anything or anyone. It is simply life, a cross-section of several independent paths converging around the same town at the same moment. Glances that cross without fully understanding one another, simply because they were there.

• The desolate landscapes of Patagonia, endless highways, and characters in search of a little humanity (even when it takes the shape of an ungainly dog!). All of Carlos Sorín's delicacy shines through in his care for these protagonists of a modest world, mostly played by non-professionals. An endearing kind of cinema.

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