Hunting Season

There's a regal, rolling sense of great-outdoors scale to "Hunting Season," a confident, clean-lined debut from Argentinian writer-director Natalia Garagiola, that only puts the internal shuttering of its young protagonist in starker relief.

New wine in old bottles, then, but the steely taste is nevertheless undeniably potent.

Avoiding even a whiff of schmaltz, Garagiola builds towards a climax that deftly skips the feel-good sentiment your typical Hollywood film would take for granted.

Despite there being something really generic about the script, Garagiola knows that the best way to portray the complexities of the story is through her actors. [Full Review in Spanish]