FREE CINEGEEK.DE Los Debutantes 

As a Kreuzberg video store owner, I naturally have a lot of contact with filmmakers who are trying their luck without a budget. You are all advised to check out Los Debutantes, which has gained a loyal following at our store over the years. Los Debutantes shows many qualities of a production that is very sparsely equipped: a film noir - because traditionally the representatives of the black series belong to the category of B-movies - with a polished script. When Los Debutantes hit theaters, Tarantino-mania was in full swing; everyone was eager to invent a convoluted script and lead us viewers by the nose. Debutant Andres Waissbluth takes Akira-Kurosawa as a model and tells his thriller in three perspectives. At the center are two brothers, just arrived in Santiago and penniless. They find themselves in the haze of a strip club, where the older finds a job. Here dances the beautiful Gracia (Antonella Rios); a femme fatale who is to cast a spell on both brothers. Where will the journey take them? What can the three social losers expect? Los Debutantes tells this love triangle story with sparse means and a lot of speed. The eye-catcher: the manipulative Gracia as the center of the unfolding carnage. P.S. While the film accuses Gracia's gangster boss of feasting on Gracia's body, one must make the same accusation against the film of having Antonella Rios perform a dance before our eyes only smeared with cream. Los Debutantes, however, gains depth when we learn things that the characters themselves are too busy to notice. Is the wicked Gracia herself a trapped innocent; a desperate mother? It's telling that the characters never ask themselves such questions, let alone care about the answers. It's a tough world, neo-capitalist Chile! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator