Shakti

Shakti

0h 19m 5.7/10

Overview

Federico, in his mid-20s, lives alone in Buenos Aires. The day his grandmother dies, he decides to part with his girlfriend. He fears hurting her. However, she is laid-back, feisty and not even close to feeling hurt. He begins obsessing over her unexpected reaction—but then he meets someone else.

Director

Guillermina Pico

Top Billed Cast

Pablo Moseinco

Pablo Moseinco

Padre Fede

Patricio Penna

Patricio Penna

Ulises

Emma Rivera

Delia

Valentina Posleman

Magda

Laura Visconti

Shakti

Ignacio Solomonese

Fede

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/20/2025

6/10

“Fede” (Ignacio Solmonese) is distraught when his grandmother dies, but he sees it as a moment to reinvigorate his life by dumping his grifriend. He doesn’t want to break her heart, but is pretty swiftly disavowed of that concern by a telephone call that suggests that traumatised she isn’t. Meantime, he has his therapist; a style of getting his car out of a tight parking spot that he might have learned from Kathy Bates and his dad and brother duly arrive at his tip of an apartment to help him get on with his life. After some singing in a choir with his sagely younger sibling “Ulises” (Patricio Penna) and some corrective surgery on his vision that merely results in him trading his glasses for one’s without a prescription, “Fede” meets “Shakti” (Laura Visconti), they share a joint and perhaps are about to embark on a new stage of their lives that will doubtless require some compromise between their lifestyles and their faiths. This is pretty much an antithesis of the standard cinematic approach to grief. There’s no wailing and breast-beating, just a lad who wants to get on with things - and this demonstrated by an entertainingly written short observation on how he sets about it. It isn’t laugh out loud, but the scenarios have a dark humour to them that helps to keep this moving along quirkily for twenty minutes. No, it’s not the kind of feature you’ll remember, but it’s worth a gander.

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