Locarno 2023 review: Patagonia (Simone Bozzelli)

“This Rimbaldian ode to love and the absolute that is Patagonia moved me like very few films about youth culture ever have.”

This contemporary queer revisitation of Bonnie and Clyde embarks on a chimerical road trip to the Patagonia that gives the film its title, referencing both a utopian geographical El Dorado that our duo of tormented lovers may never reach and also a song Agostino used to listen to with his father when he was younger.