RITA CORTESE

HEROIC LOSERS (2021)
Starring Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Chino Darín, Verónica Llinás, Daniel Aráoz, Carlos Belloso, Rita Cortese, Andrés Parra, Marco Antonio Caponi and Guillermo Jacubowicz. Directed by Sebastián Borensztein.

The year is 2001, and Argentina is hitting the lowest point in its great depression. His glory days far behind him, retired soccer star Fermín now runs a service station in a sleepy provincial town. Hoping to pull his family and their community out of decline, Fermín seeks to convert some abandoned grain silos into a viable storage facility. He convinces friends to invest in the cooperative, but is railroaded by a conniving bank manager into placing their cash into a savings account just as the banks are about to be frozen by the government, rendering their money useless and their plans quashed.

For a time things seem only to get worse, until rumours spread of a secret depository containing the cooperative’s pilfered cash and much, much more. With Fermín as their Robin Hood–esque leader, the group conspires to infiltrate the cache, but it’s going to take some serious resolve, a little inspiration, and a lot of luck to pull off this honest-person heist.

REVIEWS Heroic Losers - Enjoyable working-class heist hijinks from Argentina

WILD TALES (2015)
Starring Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Oscar Martínez, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa and César Bordón. Directed by Damián Szifron.

A collection of six darkly funny short films united by a theme of vengeance.

REVIEWS Wild Tales - Deliciously devious