Durante la tormenta (2018) or Mirage is an intriguing and supernatural thriller with interesting screenplay plenty of twists and turns . In 1989, during the fall of the Berlin Wall and a 72-hour-long electrical storm a boy named Nico (Julio Bohigas) , while recording a video in his house, hears some noises and watches a discussion scene in his neighbors' home through a window. He goes to the house only to find the body of Ms. Weiss , the wife of the neighbor Angel Prieto (Javier Gutiérrez) . Meantime, a disturbing young called Vera Roy (Adriana Ugarte) attempts to save him and uncover weird mysteries . She tries to find out a solution around the threatening and bizarre incidents , but things go wrong. As the desperado woman tells these events but no one sees to believe except for a police Inspector (Chino Darin). For whom you would stop the time !
Taut and slick thriller in128 min minutes titled Durante la tormenta or Mirage packing supernatural events in which a wife become involved into a twisted intrigue with only 72 hours to discover the truth. The film contains tension , thriller , drama , mystery , plot twists , shocks , including decent scares with tense sequences especially in its final part , in a unexpected denouement , near of the end . Suspenseful and mysterious flick with a wife and a little boy caught into fear , despair and paranoia . Twisted and complex script written by Lara Sendim and director Oriol Paulo himself. Main and support cast are frankly well. Adriana Ugarte gives a nice acting as the nurse who everybody thinks she's suffering shizophrenia and begins a dangerous race against time to save her daughter and to avoid that crime will repeat , seeking a way to prevent it . While Chino Darin is pretty fine as the stubborn police inspector who holds dark secrets . Support cast with full of familar faces , they're frankly good , such as : Javier Gutiérrez , Álvaro Morte , Belén Rueda, Nora Navas , Francesc Orella, Ana Wagener , Silvia Alonso, Belén Rueda, Miquel Fernández , Clara Segura , Aina Clotet , among others.
The fim packs an atmospheric and stirring musical score by Fernando Velazquez . And an evocative and colorful cinematography by Xavi Giménez , shot on various location in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Barcelona, Catalonia , Parc audiovisual de Catalunya, Terrassa, Catalonia, L'Ametlla del Vallés, Barcelona , Spain . The film was well financed by various producers , such as Mercedes Gamero , Sandra Hermida , Contreras, Mikel Lejarza, Eneko Lizarraga, Jaime Romero ; all of them have produced a lot of successes in the new Spanish cinema . Being professionally written and directed by Oriol Paulo who formerly realized only short movies as McGuffin , Tapes and Eve and wrote ¨The Julia's eyes¨. In 2012 he wrote and directed his first feature, ¨The Body¨. Paulo nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards and won the Best Film Award at the Fantastic Film Festival in Paris for The Body. In 2016 he wrote the script of ¨Boy Missing¨, directed by Mar Tarragona. In 2017 Paulo wrote and directed ¨The Invisible Guest¨ with Mario Casas, Barbara Lennie and José Coronado as protagonists. From 2016 onwards, Oriol Paulo works as the writer and director of the television series ¨Night and Day¨. The movie will appeal to suspense and Sci-Fi fans . Rating : Good , better than average . It's well worth watching and contains some really thrilling scenes and attractive images .
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7.4Keywords: husband wife relationship1980smother daughter relationshipspainthunderstorm
Plot summary
On November 9, 1989 (the same day the Wall of Berlin falls),Nico is a 12-year-old boy passionate about videotaping himself while playing guitar. He is being raised by his single mother María. On the same night, a 72-hour electric storm breaks out, and Nico looking through his room window witnesses a violent scene in the house of his neighbour, Ángel Prieto. He ventures into the house and stumbles on Hilda Weiss, Prieto's wife, lying dead in the house. Running scared from Prieto, who has discovered him in his home, Nico is run over by a passing car and dies as a result. Twenty-five years later, on November 9th, 2014, Vera Roy is a woman who divides her time between working as nurse in the hospital and her family: her husband David Ortiz and her little daughter Gloria. To celebrate moving into their new house in the suburbs, they invite her friend and former boyfriend Aitor Medina and his mother Clara to their house where Vera learns that she and David are living in Nico's house and that after his death, Ángel Prieto was arrested and committed suicide in prison three months later. That night after dinner, Vera comes across the old analog TV set and camera equipment used by Nico the same night that the 72-hours storm broke out. After turning the TV on, the storm connects the two devices together as one, and Vera talks to Nico and warns him off his impending death. But after the conversation, Vera wakes up in the hospital in a parallel timeline: puzzled and confused, Vera realizes that she's not a nurse but a doctor spending a few days on sick leave after the death of a patient; her daughter Gloria no longer exists; David is married to his former girlfriend, Úrsula; Aitor Medina never was her boyfriend; and Prieto is still alive and happily married to Clara Medina. With her memories constantly crossing both timelines each time that Vera touches someone, she meets Inspector Leyra in an attempt to prove the credibility of her story. Reluctant to believe her, Leyra agrees to investigate with her and both embark on a search for clues and evidence that can help to uncover the truth. With time running out and a few hours left before the storm blows itself out. In the belief that the key to this time riddle is finding out Nico Lasarte's whereabouts and proving the murder of Hilda Weiss, Vera tries not only to recover Gloria, but also to arrest Prieto and talk to the child Nico again. Which one of her two parallel lives is real? Is it her previous life a delusion? Will Vera be able to find a way to fix the things before the storm subsides?
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Tense thriller plenty of suspense , thrills, supernatural events and a complex intrigue.
Do you
You do you ... and do someone else too. But would you know you did you and someone else, if you did do? And what about the other things you did do, but don't remember doing? Wait does that make sense? I think it does, but does it? Now if you try to deconstruct what is happening here and how the timelines work with each other ... although do they? The end does suggest that ... well that's a subject for later.
The thriller mystery aspect of the movie is quite nicely told and unfolds at a decent pace ... may be a bit too slow for some, but that is something you have to account for. The acting is good overall, even when you feel like there are things you are more aware of than the main character. How do you convince others you are not crazy with a crazy theory? Which is putting it mildly.
The end ... well let's just say that the movie puts a nice bow to it all in a way ... or maybe not! One thing is for sure, I wanted it to go another way. Because who would know? Seems like someone would ... although they shouldn't ... because how can they? Again ... it's mind bending and twisting in a way that can not be explained ... or rather isn't explained, plain and (not) simple
What a brilliant movie.
I was getting ready to switch off, as I struggle with dubbed films, but after a few minutes I was gripped, even with the dubbed voices. The story was fantastic, very original, very intelligent, finally a film where the audience weren't treated as idiots. The acting was superb, the production values terrific, all helped to drive home the layered and comes story.
It had me questioning the whole way through, and left me guessing right until the end. This is one impressive movie. 9/10