L'Effet grêlon

A well-run story with the right balance between drama and comedy about mirages of fame and second chances to rise from the ashes. Miguel Flores (the always solvent Guillermo Francella) lives absorbed in the vertigo of narcissism derived from his popularity on Argentine open television: he is the favorite meteorologist in Buenos Aires. He lives disconnected from himself immersed in the character that he has created on TV. People approach him on the streets, take photos with him. His ego is so big that he doesn't realize the fragility of his fame and how it hangs by a thread. A fatal mistake in his almost always accurate forecast opens his eyes and shows him the reverse of the coin. Here is a great success in the narrative that humorously shows how social networks can be lapidary and bury in an instant the career and reputation of someone built with effort over the years. It shows the banality of open TV and the utilitarianism with which television stations treat their employees like furniture, discarding them when they no longer serve them. Disowned and jobless is when he turns to see his origins and rethink his priorities: he returns to his hometown, Córdoba and tries to reconnect with his daughter from whom he has lived far away absorbed in the artificial life he had been working on television . It is here where the story takes an interesting turn of a man who tries to reinvent himself from humility and learn from his mistakes. The plot acquires an intimate tone in the reconstruction of the broken relationship with his daughter: two strangers who share the same blood, love each other and seek a way to get closer and rediscover each other from their respective essences. In the final section there is a certain tone of magical realism in which the meteorologist meets a man from the field who is precise in diagnosing the weather and represents the antithesis of what he was when he was a TV star: a man who does not want spotlights, who he lives a low-key life and that teaches him the value of taking actions for others without expecting anything in return. A light, funny and deep film at times.