A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Ángel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.
Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. His only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob, Remo dons a disguise, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat.
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"Kill the Jockey treats identity—whether considered terms of nationality, gender, sexuality, vocation, or otherwise—as a continuum the points of which are never entirely fixed or stable, where not even death puts a definitive stamp on who we perceive ourselves to be." –Slant Magazine
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This film is edited by Rosario Suárez and produced by Carolina Agunin, Amalia Amoedo, Paz Lázaro, Delfina Montecchia, Katrin Pors, Cindy Teperman, and Lorena Villarreal.
