Graeme Tuckett05:05, May 13 2021
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Litigante (M, 93 mins) Directed by Franco Lolli In present day Bogotá, Silvia is having what we might all recognise as a particularly bloody awful few weeks. Her mother, who she enjoys a prickly and combative relationship with, is going downhill fast with cancer. At work, where Silvia is a legal counsel to a quite-probably corrupt official, an enquiry is threatening to send her career up in flames and possibly even end with Silvia doing time. At home, her son is being bullied and harassed for not having a Dad around the house. So, when Silvia is tormented by a vastly self-satisfied journalist, who later flirts with her at a party, are we actually surprised that Silvia actually finds the vaguely oafish Abel attractive, and then starts a tentative relationship with him? People in miserable situations do make lousy choices, as we all know.