“Liverpool, Alonso’s third film featuring a silent loner, centers on alcoholic sailor Farrel, who disembarks in Usuaia, at the far tip of Patagonia. From there he sets out for an even more remote destination: an inland sawmill where his mother lives with a mentally disabled girl who turns out to be his daughter. Liverpool has a very particular narrative structure: like Misael and Argentino, Farrel starts out as the subject of the camera’s gaze, but when he arrives at his destination, he himself functions like the camera, faced with a deeply strange reality at a zero degree of humanity that he can hardly bear and from which he finally flees. Neither circular like La libertad nor linear like Los muertos, Liverpool is a mise en abyme that treats the cinema as an instrument whose function is to explore its own limits. Alonso’s filmmaking goal is to acknowledge his own ignorance and make it manifest in order to avoid turning his characters into spectacles. Instead, they are his accomplices or symbols of his own perplexity.” (Quintín)

Spanish spoken, French subtitles