Two Shots Fired
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Two Gun Shots

Martín Rejtman (The Magic Gloves), one of the new Argentine cinema’s founding filmmakers, returns with his first movie in ten years. Two Shots Fired is a strange, deadpan comedy that begins with an apparent suicide attempt--the two shots of the title. But the near total recovery by the young man with the gun, who seems to have no reason for wanting to take his life in the first place, is the first sign that this film will not follow a predictable route. The inciting incident is… incidental.  Though this is a simple, quiet film about everyday life, events don't unfold in an everyday way. The narrative follows the divergent, seemingly random structure of a dream. New characters and storylines enter the film as others are discarded. At first this feels disorienting and tiring, but it gradually draws you in. Two Shots Fired plays like a film by a South American Jim Jarmusch. It's an engrossing, whimsical, digressive comedy that lingers in your memory.