The Dead Man and Being Happy
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  • Summary: Santos (José Sacristán), a sick, worn-down hired killer, impulsively heads out on one last assignment: a 2,000-mile excursion from his Buenos Aires hospital bed into the vast interior of Argentina. Cruising along in a vintage Ford Falcon, he encounters Alejandra (Roxana Blanco), who tricks h him into taking her along. Their journey takes them through countryside that feels as remote, empty, and forlorn as they are. [MoMA]… Expand

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matthew Connolly
    Sep 30, 2013
    75
    At once familiar and enigmatic, Javier Rebollo's The Dead Man and Being Happy feels like a connect-the-dots film with a few lines artfully blurred.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    Oct 2, 2013
    60
    Stories of humanized hit men make for a small but well-trod patch of screenwriting terrain, but The Dead Man and Being Happy quickly transcends that territory to become a beguiling road movie.

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