Netflix Movie ‘Strangers in the Park’ Unpacked by Director Juan José Campanella: The Question Is ‘How We Choose to Live Our Lives’
Parque Lezama, a placid bucolic park in central Buenos Aires. An aged man, Cardozo (Eduardo Blanco), sits on a bench just down from the park’s gazebo, pretending to read a newspaper, though his hands are shaking and he has lost his peripheral vision. Not much younger, Leon (Luis Brandoni), a former communist activist with a beret and walking stick, shuffles towards him and sits at his side.
“Well, what we were talking about?” he asks. “We’re weren’t talking. I don’t even know your name,” retorts Cardozo. “
“In my work, you have to assume a secret identity,” says León claiming his is Mobutu, a former officer of the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda.
Further on in Argentine Netflix film “Strangers in the Park,” the latest film from Oscar winner Juan José Campanella (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), Leon claims he’s a hot-shot lawyer – Ivan Rifkin of the law firm Weissman,