Saturday
Saturday
| 22 August 2002 (USA)
Saturday Trailers

One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.

Reviews
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
keyser soze Don't waste a second watching this crap. Extremely boring. A self referential movie. The character plays the real actor that is himself, as if he were a kind of devalued, Latin, John Malcovich's "Being John Malcovich". The best you can do is picking another Spanish movie, there are a lot with good content or at least entertaining. Don't waste a second watching this crap. Bad performances. Bad script. Everything's bad. So painful, that one just can't found much words to complete the 10 lines required to post a review. I'm almost reaching the 9th line, but I can tell you anymore, just take my advice and you will gain time and won't get a headache after watching this crap
j-acosta I have just watched this movie on a Latin channel here in Miami. I found it incredibly boring and full of overstretched nonsense dialogues that are as dumb as they can get. Even for an Argentine like me this Argentine movie was pointless so I can assume it is even more boring for non-Argentine viewers.I cannot think of a good reason why this movie was even made. I cannot stress enough how tedious the dialogues are (e.g.: "-It's strange two meet you twice in the same date. -It can happen. -But it's strange. -But it can happen. -But it's strange. -Yeah, but, you know, it can happen"). Enough said.No message, no plot. Invest your 72 minutes in something else.
groggo Maybe I'm getting too grumpy and too particular, but Sabado (Saturday) is basically a juiced-up six-character play with outdoor scenes.The object of this film, which extends (mercifully) for only 72 minutes, is to show human alienation. It doesn't really succeed. What it does show is human tedium and boredom; it shows, rather unconvincingly, people who are looking for a little spice in their dismal lives.After watching the master of human detachment or alienation, England's Mike Leigh, Sabado emerges as a pretty unsatisfactory statement on the same subject, this time in the destructive restrictions of IMF, which ripped Argentina's (among other countries) economy apart. It does show, quite well it seems, the frustration of youngish (but not that young) people who are never quite sure what they want.There is some quirky humour in this film, but it could have used a lot more. When you compare this to 'Naked,' Leigh's 1993 masterwork on alienation (and wicked dark humour), Sabado just limps along, too static and not very powerful. There is another great film I recall -- 'Humanite,' by France's Mario Dumont, that depicts alienation with such vividness that it is all but tactile.
Grouchy2003 SPOILER"Sábado" is a nice little movie that didn´t had quite the success it deserved at the time of its release here in Argentina. So it´s not really likely that anyone outside Latin America will ever get a chance to see it, which is a shame.The movie depicts the wandering of six characters (three couples) through Buenos Aires one saturday afternoon. They ran into each other practically all the time, sometimes literaly (Daniel Hendler seems to crash his car at least twice in every movie he´s in), to the point that every single one of them has had a chat with any other, and most of the time without being aware of the relation. In the end, they all return to their lives one sunday morning and nothing has changed. The film thus shows the inner boredom of a certain class of young people in Buenos Aires.The juicy part is the dialogue. Every single piece of dialogue here is superb and extremely quotable. Villegas pays a lot of attention to the delivery of the speech and it shows: none of the characters says anything honest about himself but by the end we know them all very well just by the way they speak about stupid things. The camera, on the other hand, is very static and straight-forward (it almost never moves), which in a way fits the mood of the movie but becomes a little tiresome. If we have to summarize I´d say that the only flaw of "Sábado" is that of being a little too long -even with 76 minutes. We don´t need all those scenes to get the point that this is one empty existence. But it never gets downright boring so why even bother to point that out?