Mariano Cohn on Directing 4×4

If someone would have told me I would be completely enthralled with a movie about a man inside a car that has barely any dialogue, I would have been a bit skeptical. However, this is what director Mariano Cohn achieves with 4×4.

4×4 is what I would define as an experimental thriller about a common thief Ciro, in Buenos Aires who gets trapped inside the car he is robbing and faces his past misdeeds while trapped. Panic quickly takes hold. Ciro attempts to break windows and dismantle his way out, but his steel mousetrap allows no such exit. Then, the dashboard console receives an incoming call from the car’s owner. Turns out Ciro entered the wrong stationary death machine, and there’s a price to pay for his mistake.

Shot in the leg because he pops a bullet that ricochets off polarized and bulletproof windows, Ciro needs to escape that mousetrap before infection takes him down.

The movie sparked a lot of social debate about the situation in Argentina and we got to talk to Mariano Cohn, the director. This is what he had to say:

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