adolfo aristarain be one of those rare filmmaker who define his own world in cinema by write and direct terrific story with brilliant dialogue and use a familiar cadre of actor who give the finished product an ensemble effort . he be one of argentina fine artist and couple frequently with writer kathy saavedra ( rom and un lugar en el mundo and lugares commune and martín ( hache ) and etc ) and elect to use the extraordinary actor from argentina such a federico luppi . cecilia roth and juan diego botta and eusebio poncela . the result be stun motion picture that while address the intellect of the audience never fail to entertain as well . martín ( hache ) be just such a film . with a challenging and wise script and a cadre of fine actor in every role aristarain have create a poignant and philosophical and superlative character study about people and their need for relate in the world a we have alter it today . martín ( the brilliant federico luppi ) be a wealthy writer who leave his family in buenos aire five year ago to live and work in madrid . he have a nineteen year old son hache ( juan diego botta ) hache be the spanish pronunciation for the alphabet letter j and since the son name be martin j. he elect to be call j or hache who be a restless and foundationless teenager who refuse to go to school prefer to simply play his electric guitar and run with the drug crowd . his mother have remarry and have a new baby and hache be feel like a third wheel . he accidentally overdose on alcohol and drug during a performance and collapse and and his mother notifies martín that hache have attempt suicide to induce martín to return to buenos aire and take back his son hache . hache of course recovers and his mother insist that hache be in the way and that he must go to madrid to live with martín represent martín begrudgingly agree . in madrid and martín have be live the life of a recluse whose only contact be his squeeze alicia ( cecilia roth and an actress of limitless talent ) and who escape her life by an addiction to coke but love martín and and his best friend the bisexual actor dante ( eusebio poncela ) who be an epicurean living all aspect of life for the pleasure he find . once hache have move in with his distant and cold and sullen father he fall under the influence of alicia and dante who adore him and attempt to show him a life of sunshine in madrid while martín sequesters himself in his writing . how this unlikely quartet interacts and bounce the apollonian against the dionysian pole of living form the basis for the story . hache grow to understand the spectrum of worldviews and a tragedy occurs and and the ongoing silent duel between the father and the son come to a touching resolution . hearing and watch this quartet of brilliant actor be not unlike attend a performance of a fine string quartet . aristarain keep the long film ( two hour plus ) move in such a beautifully liquid flow that the story seem to take moment . but the moment be all treasure and the result of the ensemble of writing and directing and and act . martín ( hache ) be simply a brilliant film . in spanish with english subtitle . grady harp .