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Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★★ Loose, hangout-flavored comedy about a billiard parlor that temporarily becomes a high-tech disco and a cocaine hangout. The central character's a nonentity, but Diego Luna, Jesus Ochoa and Roberto Cobo do everything needed to prop him up.
Nov 11, 2005 · Carambola is a fascinating look into the lives of people who are ruled by chance, competition, and the steadfast love for a simple but life-altering game. El Vago, a swindler who finds himself the owner of his own billiards hall, but discovers that his good fortune comes at a price.
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- Drama
- Kurt Hollander
- 2005-11-11
Within the billiards movie genre, one of the best and least-known is Carambola, a 2005 low-budget, highly stylized film that took more than two years to reach the big screen after its premier at the Guadalajara Film Festival, and then, sadly, disappeared almost as quickly.
Carambola is a fascinating look into the lives of people who are ruled by chance, competition, and the steadfast love for a simple but life-altering game. El Vago, a swindler who finds himself...
Carambola plot. El Perro is after the billiard hall of El Vago, which this shady billiard player has just won. Since El Vago is an inexperienced businessman, the problems of running his tent become more complicated than he could have anticipated.
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