Carancho
2010 · Movie · R · 107 min · ★ 6.7 · 77% critics
A lawyer stalks hospital waiting rooms to represent traffic-accident victims in insurance claims. After a romance with an ambulance medic, he tries to escape the grim racket, but the shady firm he works for keeps pulling him back.
Also known as The Vulture
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Details
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2010-05-06
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (175 votes)
About
You’ll like Carancho if you enjoy gritty crime-and-law stories with relentless tension and a dark romance; Not for you if you want uplifting drama, or if you dislike intense, morally gray conflict like White Elephant or The Clan.
Pros: gritty legal drama; tense romance; bleak atmosphere | Cons: morally heavy themes; bleak tone persists; limited light relief
Themes
- affectation
- car accident
- aggressive
- absurd
- admiring
- adoring
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- defiant
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2011 · nominated
Cast & crew
Ricardo Darín
as Sosa
Martina Gusmán
as Luján
Carlos Weber
as Perro
José Luis Arias
as Casal
Fabio Ronzano
as Pico
Loren Acuña
as Mariana
Gabriel Almirón
as Munoz
- FA
Francisco Acosta
as Pacheco
- FE
Federico Esquerro
as Administrative
- RM
Roberto Maciel
as Rinaldi
Directed by Pablo Trapero