the North By Northwest T-shirt its heroine wears in a latter scene,
To Fool A Thief has every intention of positioning itself as a homage to the lighter side of Hitchcock (there’s also a James Bond and Get Smart joke thrown in for good measure).
Hitchock’s shoes (pants?) are big ones to fill, but with material this smart and performances as breezy as this there’s no harm in trying.
It won’t make any classic lists, but this Argentinean crowd-pleaser is always enjoyable as it pulls audiences along for a fun-time ride.
The opening 15 minutes is an extended meet cute Buenos Aires which is the setting of the introductory museum
His match, is the not-quite-so ditzy as she appears, Mariana (Valeria Bertuccelli) from Martinez, where the majority of the film’s action depicting a much more complicated heist, takes place. By the end of the first robbery’s aftermath, it’s plain that Sebastián hasn’t seen the last of Mariana and so he pursues her to her hometown.
which introduces two wily schemers. First there is debonair, gentleman thief, Sebastián (Daniel Hendler) from
ertigo might be Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, but overall audiences preferred the Master’s thrillers to be liberally sprinkled with romantic comedy banter between murders and other edge of the seat delights. From the affectionate reference inherent in its English title, to
