The Curse of the Handsome Man, the new film by Argentine director Beda Docampo, is an elegant and mischievous comedy that follows Humberto, a lifelong trickster and seducer, who is now living a quiet life in Madrid after having served time in prison for a scam that cost him his relationship with his son Jorge, who he hasn’t spoken to in years. After being victimized by a robbery in the jeweler’s where he works, Jorge, an honest, hardworking man, finds himself with no other choice than to ask his estranged father for help. A father and his distanced son become caught up in a tangled web of lies, where no one is who they claim to be. Will they manage to put the past behind them and rebuild their relationship to mutual benefit?—Various sources