Bombon El Perro (DVD)

Coco (Juan Villegas) is a kindly and humble middle-aged balding Argentina guy who just wants to get back to work, plenty of time on his hands to stew. Laid off as a garage mechanic after 30 years of loyal service on the rural arterial highways, linking the small pueblos of Argentina on the Pampas where he and his family grew up, prospects don’t look good for Coco. He’s keeping busy by making knives, trying to sell them for a few pesos on his travels in his rusty old van over the baron lunar landscape. Coco is not a lucky man in life because he doesn’t seek it, just subservient to his surroundings and gifts God has given him. But today is his lucky day and ...  Read the complete review

Bombon el Perro is an Argentinian film that was released in UK cinemas in 2005. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? In short, it's a film about a man and a dog. THE PLOT Having worked as a mechanic, in a remote part of Patagonian, for over 30 years Juan Villegas finds himself redundant and on the wrong side of 50. Resigned to living with his daughter and her lazy husband, he tries to eek out a living making knives, but he is such a bad salesman that he is forced to travel further a field in search of paying work. After a series of false starts, a chance encounter on a roadside sets Juan on a path he never dreamt off. He ...  Read the complete review