Gastón Solnicki’s latest film “The Souffler” is, like his previous work, entrancing and mercurial. There is a straightforward plot here (a hotel manager learns his place of employment will soon be no more), but the Argentine filmmaker uses such a threadbare storyline to string together a broader meditation about a changing world. Told through clipped vignettes around and about said hotelier and his staff, the collaboration between Solnicki and Willem Dafoe — a bleak, black comedy that’s impressionistic in style and substance — is an utter delight.

When Lucius (Willem Dafoe) learns that the Intercontinental Hotel in Vienna he’s been managing for decades has been sold to an Argentinean (played by Solnicki) and will soon be redeveloped, he’s stunned, enraged and, the more he thinks about i

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