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Two women in this film discuss crossing an international border to buy school supplies, but when one of them suggests making the trip to her husband, he shuts (15[1])her down and quietly buys the school supplies on his own. Shots intercut with the opening credits of this film include one of a diagonal row of red peppers and one of cubes of ice being dropped into a glass of red wine. News stories about apparitions of the (*) Virgin Mary appear throughout the background of this work, until one character eventually travels to see them and finds nothing there. In this film, the young boy Luciano climbs a ladder to see if the neighbor’s dog is really a rat, but stumbles and falls to his death. In this film, a group of people lounging in pool chairs are unperturbed when elderly woman cuts herself badly by dropping a glass and denies any need to go to the hospital. For 10 points, the debut film of Lucrecia Martel was what satire of the modern Argentine bourgeois? ■END■

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