Like its handsome but zombie-like protagonist, “El Ángel” is dressed up in beautiful cinematographic frills but lacks an emotional core. Directed by the up-and-coming Luis Ortega and produced by the ...

A pillow-lipped, golden-tressed teenage boy saunters up to a palatial Buenos Aires home and casually hops the fence. He enters through an open sliding door, helps himself to a drink, fingers the ...

Luis Ortega’s “El Ángel” is set to world premiere Friday at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Variety has been granted access to the first exclusive clip ...

Virtue is often associated with beauty, and evil with ugliness. But in Argentina in the 1970s, there was a teen serial killer so strikingly becoming he was known as El Angel — the Angel of Death. When ...

“We all have a destiny. I was born a thief.” With this line, director Luis Ortega’s new film “El Angel,” a biographical drama about Argentina’s most notorious criminal, Carlos Robledo Puch, begins.

There’s a fascinating scene in Luis Ortega’s crime drama, “El Angel,” where charismatic newcomer Lorenzo Ferro pulls back his luxuriously long, curly blonde locks to fasten a pair of high-priced ...

Luis Ortega has added his film to the strong-contender list in this year’s Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. His film is based on the true story of Carlos Robledo Puch, a baby-faced criminal who ...

The Orchard has acquired North American rights to Argentinian crime drama El Angel following its well received premiere in Cannes in Un Certain Regard last month. Luis Ortega directed the feature from ...

More crumbs than I've ever seen in my life littered the formica tabletop at Tortas El Angel. It was a happy spectacle. Each shard of crust represented a crackle of texture, a degree of lightness and ...

An attractive but shallow portrayal of an attractive, shallow serial killer, based on a real-life, baby-faced murderer in 1970s Argentina. “Doesn’t anyone even care about being free?” muses Carlitos ...