Argentinian film – TODOS TENEMOS UN PLAN/EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN – issued on dvd

TODOS TENEMOS UN PLAN/EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN (15) 2012 ARGENTINA PITERBARG, ANA  £17.99 Thriller set in Buenos Aires and the bleak, Tigre delta, in which Viggo Mortensen stars as a man who swaps identities with his twin brother.

Agustin (Mortensen) appears, from the outside, to have an almost perfect life. Married to the beautiful Claudia (Soledad Villamil), he has a well-paid job as a paediatrician and lives in a pleasant Buenos Aires home.

However, the arrival of his brother Pedro (also played by Mortensen) coincides with a period of personal crisis for Agustin. When Pedro reveals that he is suffering from terminal lung cancer, Agustin sees an opportunity to start a new life. Switching identities with his brother, he returns to the Tiger Delta region he grew up in and a simpler, if far from straightforward existence.

There are difficulties when he discovers that Pedro is in trouble with a local criminal group, but hope in the form of his fledgling relationship with Rosa (Sofia Gala)…

In Spanish with English subtitles

DVD available at – https://worldonlinecinema/Home/spanish-latin-american-films-on-dvd

Observer review – http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/02/everybody-has-a-plan-review

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