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  • 2016
  • R
  • FIP
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • FIP
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary On the surface the Puccios live like most families. Arquímedes (Guillermo Francella) presides over a modest household where his wife, sons, and daughters gather most evenings over home cooked meals to discuss their days. Eldest son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani) is a star rugby player who is manipulated into helping his father carry out the m...

Directed By: Pablo Trapero

Written By: Julian Loyola, Esteban Student, Pablo Trapero

  • 2016
  • R
  • FIP
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • FIP
  • 1 h 48 m

The Clan

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
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Summary On the surface the Puccios live like most families. Arquímedes (Guillermo Francella) presides over a modest household where his wife, sons, and daughters gather most evenings over home cooked meals to discuss their days. Eldest son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani) is a star rugby player who is manipulated into helping his father carry out the m...

Directed By: Pablo Trapero

Written By: Julian Loyola, Esteban Student, Pablo Trapero

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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84% Positive
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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84% Positive
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90
Apr 21, 2016
Trapero handles the movie's pacing with a masterful ease.
By Randy Cordova FULL REVIEW
85
Mar 22, 2016
Unsettling and bizarrely humorous, The Clan is the sort of film that ups the ante of any movie that dares open with those dreaded five words: “Based on a true story.”
By Alonso Duralde FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 17, 2016
The cleverest and most troubling aspect of the film is its empathy.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 24, 2016
On one level, The Clan is an accomplished but not terribly original genre exercise — another story about amorality run amok, given an extra jolt from its real-life roots and heightened political context. What sets the film apart are the performances.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 16, 2016
Billed as a thriller, The Clan doesn't quite thrill but instead instills a slow-building dread of the inevitable.
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63
Mar 17, 2016
Swift, confident, and exceptionally nasty, this Argentine film bears roughly the same relationship to the Martin Scorsese of “Goodfellas” that Brian De Palma does to, well, all of Hitchcock.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 13, 2016
The Pablo Trapero film's parallels are drawn so bluntly that they lose all suggestive force, since there's little left to suggest.
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Production Company El Deseo, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), K&S Films, Matanza Cine, Telefonica Studios, Televisión Federal (Telefe)
Release Date Mar 18, 2016
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline La realidad supera a la ficción. [The reality surpasses fiction.]
Website https://www.facebook.com/The-Clan-166156217086013/
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Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina
• 6 Wins & 13 Nominations
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards)
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations

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