The Magic Gloves () is a 2003 Argentine comedy-drama film directed by MartÃÂn Rejtman. The film stars Vicentico, Valeria Bertuccelli, Diego Olivera, Fabián Arenillas, Cecilia Biagini and Susana PampÃÂn. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival on 12 August 2003, followed by a premiere on 8 September at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. It received a theatrical release in Argentina on 27 May 2004.
Alejandro (Vicentico), a cab driver, and his girlfriend Cecilia are in the middle of a breakup when they are taken in by a social group led by a domineering married couple, Sergio (Fabián Arenillas) and Susana (Susana PampÃÂn). Alejandro temporarily leaves his job as a cab driver to join a plastic glove investment with Sergio and SergioâÂÂs brother Luis, a porn actor who has been working in Canada.
Writing for The Village Voice, J. Hoberman praised the film; "The Magic Gloves is a city symphony in which the metropolis seems an illusory maze and the melody is based on a refrain of recurring riffs." Dan Sallitt writing in Senses of Cinema wrote that "The Magic Gloves pushes the deadpan style of Spanish comedy so far that the abstraction comes out the other end."