The Businessman (2023)
In 1976, while he was taking his grandchildren to school, a businessman was kidnapped by a guerrilla organization. Two months later, the army broke into the house in which he was being held captive in order to release him. That same day, one of the guerrillas was abducted and disappeared by the civic-military dictatorship. Decades later, the director of this film, and the son of that guerrilla man, meets to talk with the businessman’s son and grandsons. The Businessman is made up of talks, but also of magazines, poster, flyers, photographs, newspapers, ads, home movies and objects that are also the testimony of a time; its editing makes personal memories intertwine with the story, and in it, the question of the relationship between who’s filming and who’s being filmed becomes inescapable.
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it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review