An Odd Turn (2024)

“Lucrezia” (Laila Maltz) gets fired from her museum security job after flirting with one of her colleagues over the radio. She fancies herself as a bit of a fortune teller, though, and so foreseeing that the Argentinian Peso was heading for a slump against the US Dollar, she invests her pay-off. Low and behold, her investment triples and so she goes off in search of a currency dealer. Enter her nameless but handsome street broker (Paco Gorriz) who gets a little more than interest for his troubles. She mentions to him that she quite likes the Grindr hookup philosophy - meet and go, sort of thing, and we assume that she is looking for something similar. Next time they meet it transpires that he - not averse to sleeping with his older female clientèle either, had tried that app out, met a guy (Alejandro Russek) and he suggested they arrange a threesome. She appears totally un-phased by the whole proposition so might it happen? I actually quite enjoyed the throwaway nature of not just this film, but of the idea that sexual activity can just be fun without the usual trappings of courtship and judgment, all set against a backdrop of amateur theatricals with a spinning tea bag. No, you’ll never remember it afterwards and at twenty minutes it is too long, but it is still quite good fun.