Do check out Cockfighter, guys, if you can.

Watched the doc My Perestroika last night. The reviews are great (Metacritic 93).

I took the excerpt from my festival report for Film International where I mention Lerman's film and added a couple of sentences. Here it is:

Kudos to the Global Film Initiative for selecting Federico Veiroj’s miniature for stateside distribution in 2011.

The Global Film Initiative is also distributing Diego Lerman's The Invisible Eye, a film of wider appeal than A Useful Life. Lerman's two previous features, Suddenly and Meanwhile, were low-budget, contemporary slice-of-life narratives with an improvisational feel. The Invisible Life is a completely different kind of movie. Lerman, who belongs to the large group of talented, young directors who emerged around the turn of the century, has now positioned himself at the commercial mainstream of the national cinema of Argentina. It is a political, period film with outstanding production values and a predictable if thoroughly engrossing and engaging plot. The Invisible Life concerns the relationship between a young, sexually repressed teacher (Julieta Zylberberg) and the despotic principal of an elite, private high school that serves as a microcosm of Argentinian society during the dark years of military dictatorship. The directors of the "new Argentine Cinema" typically prefer to approach the past from a more distant and oblique perspective. Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman would be a good example. Lerman’s film is a bit too reminiscent of The Official Story, the powerful Argentinian film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1985, and many films from all over the world set in totalitarian educational institutions. The Invisible Eye is a good film that would satisfy a wide audience but it is old-fashioned. It was Zylberberg's magnificent performance that kept my interest consistently. I hope we get to see more of her work in the future.