Chinese Take-Out
2012 ‘Un cuento chino’ Directed by Sebastián Borensztein
Synopsis
"A Chinese Tale" is a comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert (Ricardo Darin) and a Chinese named Jun (Huang Sheng Huang) who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle, the only living relative who has . Robert meets in June at the time that the latter is thrown into the streets from inside a taxi after being assaulted by the driver and his henchmen. From then began a forced and strange coexistence between the two, because Roberto does not speak Chinese and Jun a word of Spanish.
Cast
Recent reviews
More-
¿Podemos vivir sin afecto de los demás? ¿O somos capaces, más bien, de escabullirnos de esa "necesidad social" de involucrarse con los demás?
La película lo plantea mediante una comedia de tintes grises, por no llegar a lo oscuro, pero no importa, funciona en ese nivel y nos muestra la confrontación de dos hombres divididos no solo por el idioma, sino por los objetivos tan distantes que cada uno tiene: el ferretero sólo quiere llevar a cabo sus rutinas diarias mientras que el chino al que se alude en el títullo, busca a un pariente por el que decidió dejar su país de origen cuando en éste su novia fue aplastada por una vaca que cayó del cielo. Sí. Del…
-
Os antípodas culturais que perfilham naquela casa criam conjunturas estranhas, a barreira linguística deixa no ar uns silêncios desconfortáveis.
-
Um filme original e divertido.
Original and funny. -
No le compré su mensaje de vida a esta comedia española-argentina sobre un hombre que azarosamente queda a cargo de un chino de veinticinco años (siendo mayor de edad no había necesidad de adoptarlo ¿o sí?) con el que entablará una amistad por encima de la barrera del lenguaje, bla bla bla yada yada yada. La banda sonora es excesiva y su tono "feel good" es casi un spoiler que arruina la posibilidad de dejarse sorprender por la trama. No es mala. Está bien contada, pero sus personajes con demasiado forzadamente pintorzcos y el mood se siente artificial.
-
not that funny for a comedy, but kinda ok for a lazy sunday afternoon.
it's the second movie* I watched that features a cow falling out of a plane www.snopes.com/critters/farce/cowtao.asp
* Osobennosti natsionalnoy rybalki
-
wonderful Darin!!
-
Comedia sureña (del sur de Latinoamerica) por excelencia. Esto es, contexto melancólico, triste, gris y cotidiano, con un elemento nuevo que sabotea todo lo anterior. En este caso es un chino y una vaca que cae del cielo. Funciona.
-
A minor film with a fairly predictable setup and some quirks that might have worked in a French comedy but feel a little forced in this light drama. Still, it's pleasant enough, just not a must-see.
-
I don't generally step inside a cinema if the film has started but the popcorn and choc tops had already been purchased so we would have looked rather ridiculous if we hadn't gone in.
Stepping inside, it was immediately clear that the audience was already won over. Communal laughter rippled through the audience, a reaction to a character joke that we, five minutes late, had already missed. It had something to do with the curmudgeonly hardware store owner on the screen as he cantankerously dealt with a customer. We were soon to learn the hardware store owner, Roberto (Ricardo Darín), lives alone, detached from life and obviously scarred from the deaths of his parents many moons ago. Enter Jun (Ignacio…