Comedy | Drama | Romance | USA/Argentina | 88min
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Mirjana Jokovic, Gabriela Acher
Travelling dentist Fergus O’Connell (Daniel Day-Lewis) traverses South America on his motorcycle for the Eversmile Foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference – and established antediluvian dentists.
As played by Day-Lewis with deadpan sincerity, this gentle, dreamlike film may not strike the casual viewer as anything special at first. But Day-Lewis' Fergus O'Connell stands in the great picaresque tradition of Don Quixote: a man intensely focused on doing good in a world that urgently needs it, a man who's baffled by that world's failure to acknowledge the need, and is so devoted to his cause that he ignores that world's reality in favour of the surreal world that we see here through his idealistic eyes. Witty, sophisticated in its understanding of its literary roots, and brilliantly played by a perfect cast.