The marvelous Argentinean actor María Onetto is adept at playing women whose facades are on the verge of crumbling in ways evident to the audience, even if the characters around them don’t notice. Puzzle, the feature debut of writer-director Natalia Smirnoff, isn’t as ambitious, confounding, or excellent as the last film in which Onetto appeared on U.S. screens, Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman. But it does offer another showcase for Onetto to have what’s essentially an unnoticed breakdown amid an affectionate but oblivious family. In the opening sequence, Onetto’s meek housewife is frantically ...
- 5/26/2011
- avclub.com
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