Nobody Is Crazy
Sci-fi as self-help, Federico Arioni’s second feature film, Nobody Is Crazy (Nadie Está Loco), does away with most of the trappings, scratch that, all of the trappings of the sci-fi movie and focuses instead on the mental well-being of Rafael, an Argentinian teenager with OCD. It’s a a strange, confident movie made for no money, starring whole swathes of Arioni’s family, including his mother, who plays Rafael’s mother, and Arioni himself, who turns up in black mask as a time-travelling “chrononaut”, or so he says. Or maybe he’s Rafael’s dad, arriving from the past, or Rafael himself, from some years in the future. The film is the story of the relationship between these … Read more