Ah well. Least as long as you're on your computer, you're off the streets.

By PRADIP BISWAS, THE INDIAN EXPRESS,INDIA
Natalia Smirnoss of Argentina makes a tremendous revelation by making her second feature film LOCK CHARMER. Set in Buenos Aires during a three-week span in 2008 when the city was said to be invaded by a mysterious fog, reason being unknown. The story unfolds 33-year-old Sebastian (Esteban Lamothe) who finds himself dealing with the double whammy of a quaint ability with the news that he may soon become a dad. The rumour appears to be a bombshell dropped by Sebastian’s casual stay of five months with Monica (Erica Rivas). The twist is that Monica is all against an abortion. She is psychologically prepared to raise the child on her own and has no interest in tucking up Sebastian into family life. We have here a power of woman’s empowerment. It upsets Sebastian to a great extent. Nevertheless, the situation forces Sebastian to confront his own baggage, a chronic inability to commit, and unravel feelings about his bohemian father (Sergio Boris), currently living quietly outside the city.
However, that low-key dramaturgy gets a little spark from Sebastian’s special power, which is never recognized by a logical explanation. It is to be noted that which everyone presumes is a strange side effect of the fog. Here is fog is metonym. Sebastian isn’t too keen on the ability to attract wide attention but he can’t stop himself from blurting out the truths whenever he’s absorbed in natural job. At such a time, he meets Daisy (a charming non-pro Yosiria Huaripata), a Peruvian housemaid who quits her job when Sebastian reveals that her boyfriend has been stealing from her boss. With nowhere else to go, she moves in with Sebastian and encourages him to use his talents to help people. Of course, the person he most needs to help is himself.
Although Natalia carefully dodges the complex ploy for a love triangle to develop, a magical mystery is planted with a touch of magical finess like that of fog which is never predictable. The film displays an easy odd-couple rapport in Sebastian and Daisy’s scenes together — including a quirky ritual involving an egg — which presents the film’s primary pleasure. Lamothe acquits himself well enough as a likable leading man, but the role doesn’t demand very much. It said each part and movement is steeped in some mystery occurrence. Some critics find it a “wisp of melancholy comedy”. This critic fails to appearance of lingering fog that is set to set the ball rolling. Natalia makes his Locksmith imagine the simple concept — a locksmith gains the mysterious ability to intuit the secrets of his clients. The structure is finely patterned and is kept elliptical till the end. Natalia with a sincere work of course wins our kudos.