Acclaimed experimental Argentinian writer-director Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool," which was featured in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes in 2008, is a bold, successful attempt at a film narrative in which images are everything and words are few.
Juan Fernandez's Farrel is a lean, good-looking but introverted merchant seaman who asks his freighter captain for shore leave in the port city of Ushuaia, the southernmost town in Tierra del Fuego. It is the dead of winter and Farrel has decided to make his way to his native village to see, after a 20-year absence, if his mother is still alive. (The film's title most likely refers to the freighter's city of origin.)
