Lauded at the Venice Film Festival last year, South American crime thriller The Clan is heading brassily in our direction. It has a new poster and a clip to announce its GoodFellas-like wares, both of which you can check out below, prior to its UK release this month.
Pablo Trapero has been crafting hard-hitting Argentine thrillers and dramas for a couple of decades, but this one could make him a more familiar name on this side of the Atlantic too. It pairs him with The Secret In Their Eyes’ Guillermo Francella, a steely-eyed patriarch of a crime family based in Buenos Aires who makes a living in all sorts of shady ways.
Remarkably, it’s all based on a true story. Francella’s character, Arquimedes Puccio, was an ex-secret serviceman who put his experience to running the kind of abduction and extortion schemes depicted in this clip. As the title implies, the film’s focus is on the ties than bond this ruthless patriarch with his extended family, especially the Vito/Michael-like dynamic with his talented and sporting son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani).
With Pedro Almodóvar as producer and a Venice Silver Lion to its name, The Clan makes its UK bow on 16 September.