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- 90Film ThreatSabina Dana PlasseFilm ThreatSabina Dana PlasseGaucho Gaucho is a celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls who live beyond the boundaries of the modern world.
- 83The Film StageJose SolísThe Film StageJose SolísThe filmmakers leave the gaucho community the same way they arrived, a tracking shot that turns the camera into a train that stopped briefly in a place we otherwise wouldn’t know existed, each viewer taking a custom souvenir. For some a lesson in courage and tenacity or curiosity about how this culture came to be; for others, it may be simply the snapshot from a trip they won’t regret taking.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe real stars are the magnificent black and white images shot by Dweck and Kershaw. The co-directors’ eye for composition allows them to find visual magic and an arresting sense of drama in every frame.
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonWhat results is an affecting tone poem which ruminates on the passage of time and the passing of traditions from one generation to the next.
- All this cutting from one perfectly framed shot to the next, never remaining inside a scene long enough so that the hopes and dreams of a flesh-and-blood being might emerge, felt rather like treading in a vacuum; and left this viewer longing to know more about these resilient gauchos.
- 70VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeSome of these vignettes are more arresting than others; all are pleasurable in the patchwork impression they form of a lively and eccentric way of life. Anthropological excavation isn’t the objective here; Dweck and Kershaw are more than happy to buy into the community’s self-mythologizing, to absorb the hand-me-down stories and macho iconography that keep the romance of the gaucho alive.
- 42The PlaylistBrian FarvourThe PlaylistBrian FarvourServes as little more than an exercise in striking photography mixed with a series of vignettes that’s as slice of life as one’s likely to find.