Toxic

Original title: Tóxico

2020
1h 20m

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Jazmín Stuart and Agustín Rittano in Toxic (2020)

In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motor-home to get away from the chaos. As the... Read allIn the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motor-home to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly strange and dangerous place. Fina... Read allIn the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motor-home to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly strange and dangerous place. Finally, Laura reveals a story that changes everything. The road is depopulating, the silence ... Read all

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A prophetic film about a pandemic but from an intimate approach

A couple decides to "flee" in a mobile home in Buenos Aires to a country house escaping from an epidemic.

We are looking at a movie shot before the coronavirus pandemic and with an amazing predictive power. How nice it would have been to be able to see her before and again now.

Director Ariel Martínez Herrera consulted with a biologist to make it, but, fortunately, nothing is further from the usual apocalyptic cinema than this film.

Beyond its delirious touches and the inevitable encounters that every road movie must offer its protagonists (all good, although some better), the great success of the film is its option for intimacy, showing what a situation like this would poses a partner, without making it any less disturbing.

Toxic eludes tremendousness (there are appropriate comic touches) and effectively raises the epidemic as a theme that redefines everyday life all the time, with a great starring role by Jazmín Stuart and Agustín Rittano and a very good soundtrack by Lucas Fridman that accompanies all the records of this film.