and in love with himself according to the film's trailer in English. Background Casting Pablo Trapero, in neo-realist fashion, used non-actors when he filmed. The grandmother in the film (Graciana Chironi) is Trapero's actual grandmother. In fact, she's present in all of Trapero's films. She's seen by the director as the story's conscience. Filming locations The picture was filmed in Buenos Aires, Yapeyú, Corrientes and La Cruz, Corrientes; Argentina. Distribution The film was first presented at the Venice Film Festival on 6 September 2004. Later in the month it made its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on 16 September 2004. It screened at various film festivals, including: the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brazil; the New York Film Festival, USA; the Chicago International Film Festival, USA; the Nantes Festival, France; the Seattle International Film Festival, USA; and others. Release dates of production companies Argentina: 30 September 2004. Brazil: 9 December 2005. France: 1 December 2004. Germany: 23 February 2006. Spain: 4 March 2005. United Kingdom: 18 November 2005. Critical reception Stephen Holden, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film and the direction of Pablo Trapero, and wrote, "Don't fret if you find it frustrating to unscramble the blood ties or follow the fragmented domestic dramas that jostle one another in Pablo Trapero's bighearted ensemble comedy...Without becoming intimate with any one person, you come to know them collectively." Time Out film reviews wrote, "[I]t becomes clear we've seen a film of subtlety and wisdom, a shaggy-dog story about learning to deal with disappointment, compromise, confusion and loss: learning, in short, to survive life in all its painful truth and beauty." Film critic Diego Lerer, a member of FIPRESCI, wrote an extensive essay on Pablo Trapero's cinema works. He said of the film, "The 'families' in Rolling Family are already morally 'corrupted.' It is never clearly spoken, but one of the reasons is obvious: they live in the capital. They have urbanised, diversified, and standardised themselves; they are no longer the safeguard against problems, but are now a part of them, and perhaps among the most serious ones...the characters are presented in a much crueler and hostile way, and the filmmaker does not just look at 'the others' with a dark gaze, but also at 'us'." Critic Neil Young wrote, "Familia rodante nimbly dramatises the clash between old ways and new, making this a