No matter how spectacular, expensive or star-studded Hollywood blockbusters may be, there will always be vibrant, inventive, international gems that consistently prove that less is more. Very little happens in Pablo Giorgelli's debut feature Las Acacias (2011, Verve, 12), a pitch-perfect, low-key road movie about a long-distance lorry driver (Germn de Silva) who agrees to transport a young woman (Hebe Duarte) from Paraguay to Buenos Aires, only to discover that she has a five-month-old child in tow. Buy it from Initially dismayed by the prospect of the overcrowded journey ahead, loner Rubn gradually warms to his charges, and a hesitant relationship emerges between him and Jacinta. Casting an established actor (De Silva) opposite a talented newcomer (Duarte), Giorgelli conjures an extraordinary balance between an air of unaffected naturalism and a precisely defined, acutely observed dissection of human interaction. The result is an absolutely beautiful movie that brilliantly captures the changing notes and cadences of a relationship through the smallest gestures between the often silent protagonists; entire sections of this unexpected treat resemble nothing so closely as a silent film. A deserving winner of the Cannes Camra d'Or prize, Las Acacias is an honest pleasure that heralds the arrival of more than one major new talent; if only more movies were made this way. The biggest problem with Another Earth (2011, Fox, 12) is that it is destined to dwell forever within the shadow of Lars von Trier's superior Melancholia . Both films feature the spectre of a large blue planet