Grandma on the road

Pablo Trapero's film takes place in a large, unreliable mobile home in which a family of four generations is travelling across Argentina, from Buenos Aires to a small town on the Brazilian border.

Grandma Emilia was born and brought up here, and the frail 84-year-old has persuaded them all to return so she can be matron of honour at her niece's wedding. As the heat and distance take hold, old grudges and jealousies surface.

At first, this seems a slight story. However, Trapero's deceptively simple way of handling it gradually takes hold and the last half-hour at the wedding, where grandma meets an old lover, is masterly.

The old girl, by the way, is beautifully played by Graciana Chironi, Trapero's own grandmother, which may be why the tale seems so truthful about ordinary but not unexceptional lives.