Bad Company Reviews

BAD COMPANY is a disturbing, surrealistic black comedy, which--like most recent Argentine films--criticizes the overthrown military regime. Luppi and Mujica are a seemingly innocent and well-mannered middle-aged couple whose desperate need for lodgings leads them to take a room in the flat of a narcissistic young sculptor, Nestor Sola. The older people are more or less kept prisoners in their small, barren room, patiently contending with their repressed situation, until they decide to turn the tables. BAD COMPANY has wonderfully complex and symbolically significant characters. Sola, for all his selfishness, is charming and charismatic. His strong individuality upsets Luppi's and Mujiaca's self-righteousness; instead of reassessing their own values, they resort to violence. Luppi's character represents a member of the fallen regime that incarcerated and tortured those individuals who threatened its order. Nestor's artistic nature, which looks for fulfillment completely outside the moralistic social structure, is seen as the greatest threat to repression. (In Spanish; English subtitles.)