To Adrián Suar you have to recognize his great talent for comedy: he is funny and knows how to compose as few those verbalrgic characters who always put the leg. For years, critics underestimated him, as if he were a minor actor. But it is time to value it as one of the greats of the genre in our country. And now, in addition, he confirms it as director in Mazel Tovhis new movie.
What he does this time is admirable, and has to do with the private life of a Jewish family, a land that suck – seeing television – knows very well. The way in which he exposes those intimate ties, almost without filter, makes the viewer pay immediately to the conflicts and grudges that emerge between the Roitman brothers after the death of his father.
One of them, Darío (Suar), lives in the United States and travels to Argentina to attend the marriage of his sister Daniela (Natalie Pérez) and the Bat Mitzvah of his niece. But, above all, he returns to try to recompose the links with his brothers and other relatives.
However, the trip becomes painful and sad, since it comes just for the funeral of his father, a ceremony that Suar portrays with effective comedy steps.
Reflex action
It is difficult not to identify with the quarrels of the Roitman. We are spectators of something that will always arouse curiosity, such as the resolution of those fights that arise between the characters and that, in some way, question us. The best thing to do is not forget about family values, which you filma with honesty.
In Mazel Tov The importance of forgiveness and reconciliation between brothers stand out. Suar is not a stylist of the form, but rather a classic custom that bets more on the one than for how, emphasizing goodness, understanding, love and close links, despite the problems they may go through.
In this sense, Suar looks like an old cinema teacher, like when Darío speaks to his son (Aaron Palomino) in a bar, with total sincerity and love, at a time that loosen the tears. Or as in one of the final scenes, when the brothers express their words before their father’s tomb.
But Suar would not have achieved such an effective, human and moving comedy without the accompanying actors, starting with Fernán Mirás, who plays Gabriel, the older brother and in charge of the family furniture.
-Mirás demonstrates a natural and natural comic quality. His character is simple, without effects, and is sustained with patience that is perfectly complemented by Darío’s verbiage.
The same goes for Natalie Pérez and Benjamín Rojas. She as the young woman who insists on marrying despite the duel for her father, and Guido (Rojas) as the forgotten brother, marked by a past of abandonment who still lives with resentment.
The uncle played by Rodolfo Ranni and his son (Pablo Bigliardi) also stand out, who contribute the right tone for the comedy to become tense, without forgetting Lorena Vega as the former Darío ex -wife, who brings a nice cruel antipathy.
Mazel Tov It is narrated with a friendly and classic style, and with a dramatic comic that has a long tradition in Argentine cinema, in addition to leaving an always necessary teaching. Hopefully Suar keep making movies.
To see
Mazel Tov (Argentina, 2025)
Comedy, drama
Qualification: Very good
Address: Adrián Suar. Screenplay: Pablo Solarz. Cast: Adrián Suar, Fernán Mirás, Natalie Pérez, Benjamín Rojas, Rodolfo Ranni, Esteban Bigliardi, Lorena Vega, Lucía Luna Li, Alberto Ajaka, Lucila Mangone, Adriana Aizemberg, Aaron Palomino and Guillermo Arango. Photography: Guillermo Nieto. Music: Nicolás Sorín. Duration: 97 minutes. Suitable for over 13 years. In cinemas.
