The film opens with its protagonist reading his daughter's Tarot cards ("you can now become your own mother"), and asks to be handsomely paid. Three days of meetings with Ruti Sela’s father Ruben Kanalenstein after eight years of distance.
El Palabrero portrays a man whose virtuosic rhetoric juggling serve to muse on Borges and to hustle out of paying rent. A singular scholar who is a bum – and happens also be the director's father. El Palabrero mitigates power and reflects on cinema as a means of dialogue, as much as it a family video.
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