Continuing our series of writers recommending underappreciated movies is an ode to a 2017 drama about an actor struggling to make it in New York CityWhat happens when a man who is accustomed to being the centre of attention finds himself becoming invisible? When a life busked from cash in hand jobs trips into freefall? Julia Solomonoff’s delicately textured character study follows Nico (Guillermo Pfening), the former star of an Argentinian soap opera, who trades autograph hunters for anonymity and moves from Buenos Aires to New York to take a role in an indie movie.
Instead he finds himself unmoored in a city which sees him as just another Hispanic immigrant.
If it sees him at all.Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game
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