A rich satire of midlife crisis and free market capitalism, The Magic Gloves is a wonderful chamber piece played between two dysfunctional couples who establish an oddly symbiotic relationship, exchanging advice and services in a roundabout economy of friendship and entrepreneurship. The Magic Gloves offers a more tightly controlled variation of Rejtman’s restrained aesthetic that transforms domestic and public spaces – the bar, the discotheque – into a stylized theater of displaced emotions and unexpected comedy.

An early black-and-white mood piece, Rejtman’s lyrical short film fuses a young couple’s passage into early adulthood with a journey through Buenos Aires in the quietest moments at the very break of day.