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‘Gaucho Gaucho’ Review: An Argentine Cowgirl Becomes One of the Boys in a Highly Cinematic Documentary
'The Truffle Hunters' directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw offer another soothingly beautiful probe into a rural community in 'Gaucho Gaucho.'
The most engaging of these threads, lending proceedings a somewhat consistent narrative spine, centers on Guada, an independent-minded teenage girl who yearns to join the predominantly male gaucho set, and to prove herself on a local rodeo circuit that isn’t for the faint-hearted. His five-year-old son Jonny receives every morsel of paternal cowboy wisdom with porous, wide-eyed enthusiasm; as with Guada’s gender-defying determination, the film shows the gaucho lifestyle, however seemingly divorced from modernity, making generational strides. The jangly local rock ‘n’ roll of Argentine band Los Gatos’ single “La Balsa” fits, but so does a stately selection from Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers”: a French aria about male friendship tested by grander passions that, in the moment, feels written for galloping cowboys stamping their own legend on the plains.
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