
Kill the Jockey
- Today, Jul 29
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Director: Luis Ortega Run Time: 96 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2024 Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Starring: Daniel Fanego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girolamo, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó
Screenwriters: Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios, Fabian Casas
Producers: Charlie Cohen, Isaac Lee, Axel Kuschevatzky, Paz Lázaro, Cindy Teperman, Esteban Perroud, Luis Ortega
Join us in the MUBI Microcinema for a surreal slice of Argentinian cinema with the gender-bending and unexpectedly touching dark comedy Kill the Jockey. Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. Perpetually inebriated, hopped up on horse drugs, and in hock to a minor mafioso, Remo seems to have a death wish. His girlfriend and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó) is pregnant, but more invested in the libidinous equestrian underworld than in their drab domestic existence. Remo’s only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob and replaced in Abril’s bed by the alluring Ana (Mariana Di Girolamo), Remo dons a disguise and finds himself as herself, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat and going by the name Dolores. A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Angel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.