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by Elisa Giudici
KILL THE JOCKEY © Rei Pictures, El Despacho, Infinity Hill, Warner Music Entertainment)
KILL THE JOCKEY by Luis Ortega
There is a certain aesthetic in the self-destruction of genius. In El Jockey (or Kill the Jockey), this is encapsulated in a visually seductive scene where Nahuel Pérez Biscayart prepares his signature cocktail: a base of horse medicine in a glass of whiskey, drowned in a cloud of cigarette smoke. He downs it in one gulp and then mounts his horse for a race that ends sooner than expected.
Kill the Jockey has an explosive first half-hour...