On paper, Trenque Lauquen's chapters (12 in total) might seem thinly connected, but Citarella ensures the relationship between each is strong. The result is a fascinating and alluring dramatic epic that never once outstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

‘…an absorbing exploration of the connection between myth and reality in a supple world where there’s no scientific way of knowing which is which…describes a subversive world that’s carefully constructed and designed to evade any attempt to define it…’

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2024

Laura Citarella's indescribable, incandescent two-part saga of obsessive love, monsters, and the end of the world.

| Jan 4, 2024

There are similarities with the mumblecore science fiction of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Colour and The Endless, but Trenque Lauquen daringly stakes out its own spooky terrain.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 23, 2023

Argentinian director Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen is an enigmatic, semi-absurdist puzzle that defies the allure of narrative solution in favour of the liberation of loose ends.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2023

Paredes gives the film a magnetic, if elusive, core, a seemingly fragile but unshakeably intrepid heroine — at once Alice in Wonderland, Holmesian sleuth, and feminist Tintin.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2023

An extraordinary achievement in both narrative storytelling and thematic originality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 5, 2023

Cult status beckons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2023

With her third feature, a work six years in the making, Laura Citarella teases out the central mystery with droll and insightful digressions, while composer Gabriel Chwojnik keeps things lively with an ever-changing score...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 24, 2023

...will envelop you in its many mysteries and delight you with its mischievous spirit. Have you ever fallen in love with a movie? This one might just do the trick.

| Original Score: A | Sep 22, 2023

Citarella’s direction flourishes with great movement toward the various backgrounds where the search is heading, creating beautiful images that add to the film’s theme of losing one’s sense of self.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 29, 2023

The first part of Treqnue Lauquen is a narrative labyrinth in which the director invites the audience to use their own imagination to find a good port for departure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2023

a quiet, effortless enchantment that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.

| Original Score: 86/100 | May 1, 2023

Trenque Lauquen may refer to Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) with its citations, and some frames are reminiscent of Hitchcock's best suspense for instance. But the director makes her own film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 24, 2023

“Trenque Lauquen” undermines the hubris of discovery — a distinctly masculine impulse, and a narrative principle we often take for granted.

| Apr 20, 2023

The film’s inescapably feminist heart remains powerful and poignant; it never allows Laura to be romanticized or presented as a riddle to be solved, but rather demands we respect her subjectivity

| Apr 16, 2023

I find myself reluctant to give even a perfunctory synopsis of Trenque Lauquen, since many of the film’s delights emerge from the deliriously original plots and subplots that Citarella and Paredes have concocted.

| Apr 14, 2023

Trenque Lauquen is a puzzle and a (micro) universe where genres converge. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 27, 2023

Trenque Lauquen takes hold and does not let go of the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 6, 2023

The story immerses us suggestively and gradually, then steps on the gas, inciting the audience to keep up. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 4, 2023