My Masterpiece (2018)

An art-world con with two old friends at its center. Guillermo Francella plays a smooth Buenos Aires gallery owner and Luis Brandoni a cantankerous painter whose work has fallen out of fashion, and when money runs out they hatch a scheme that gets wilder and riskier the further it goes. Gastón Duprat skewers collectors, critics and the market for dead artists with real glee, and the bickering between the two leads has the rhythm of a long marriage. The plot takes a sharp turn halfway through that is best discovered cold. It premiered out of competition at Venice and is lighter and more openly crowd-pleasing than the director's earlier satires.