Netflix Movie ‘Strangers in the Park,’ Unpacked by DirectorJuan José Campanella: The Question Is ‘How We Choose to Live Our Lives’  

Mar 24, 2026 1:15am PT Netflix Movie ‘Strangers in the Park,’ Unpacked by DirectorJuan José Campanella: The Question Is ‘How We Choose to Live Our Lives’  

The latest from Campanella, director of the Oscar-winning ‘The Secret in Their Eyes'

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Strangers in the Park. (L to R) Luis Brandoni as León, Eduardo Blanco as Antonio in Strangers in the Park. Cr. Marcos Ludevid / Netflix © 2026.

Parque Lezama, a placid bucolic park in central Buenos Aires. An aged man, Cardozo (Eduardo Blanco), sits on a bench just down from the park’s gazebo, pretending to read a newspaper, though his hands are shaking and he has lost his peripheral vision. Not much younger, Leon (Luis Brandoni), a former communist activist with a beret and walking stick, shuffles towards him and sits at his side. 

“Well, what we were talking about?” he asks. “We’re weren’t talking. I don’t even know your name,” retorts Cardozo. “

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