El hombre de al lado/The Man Next Door (2009)

A small incident over two neighbors common wall sparks a conflict which affects the intimacy of the view over the chimney; the protagonist sparks a conflict and with paranoiac obsession destroys everyday life. The film (El hombre de al lado) has a special cool, flat, grayish look that is elegant and distinctive, and it won the cinematography prize at Sundance. The film in terms of location and structure is so simple that it would work excellently as a piece of live theatre, just as much as it does on the screen, and it is in this simplicity that “El hombre de al lado” manages to reach an unexpected and dramatic ending.

Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) es diseñador industrial muy famoso…y también muy soberbio que vive con su mujer y su hija en una casa muy especial y reconocida por haber sido diseñada por Le Corbusier.Su vecino es Víctor, es un vendedor de autos usados, extremadamente vulgar y prepotente. Una guerra descomunal se desatará entre estos dos vecinos cuando a Víctor se le ocurra abrir una ventana que dá a la propiedad de Leonardo.

Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat
Stars: Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Araoz and Eugenia Alonso
Production land: Argentina
Premiere Date: 13 November 2009 Mar del Plata Film Festival
IMDb - 7.2 (518 votes)