The question they haven’t asked us lately, but they did ask us at the airports before presenting the suitcase – Did you make it or did they make it?, or Has anyone given you something to take away? – they never ask Alejandro Petrossian (William Francella) into extortiona film that is more of a suspense than a thriller.
It is understood: the man is an airline pilot, but if he were asked any of those questions, he would be in trouble.
The cart he recently got wasn’t assembled by him, and yes, they gave him or put something there to get.
How does Alejandro come to this unexpected situation? Easy. One day two airport policemen visit him at his house and ask him to accompany them. He surprises him, but reassures his wife Carolina, who is a flight attendant (Andrea Frigeri) and goes to Ezeiza airport, where he is interviewed by a certain Saavedra (Pablo Rago).
shared secrets
Well, Saavedra and his people are not from the airport police but from the secret service. They know two things about Alejandro: He hid a slight hearing impairment in his physical aptitude test, which was done by a doctor who, here comes the second thing, was his lover.
The first thing can leave him without a job, shortly after retiring; the second, you can leave it outside the house, if your wife finds out.
So title extortion immediately claims its victim.
But not the only one.
Of course, Ale isn’t the only one who has been caught with some sin that hasn’t been atoned for or forgiven. There is his colleague, played by Guillermo Arengo, who carries a similar cart, with the same decal as the cow.
How to get out of it, especially when the one who belongs to the airport police (Carlos Portaluppi, who after having been one of the judges of the Cassation in Argentina, 1985is incorruptible again), finds out and asks him to report Saavedra and the rest of the Primera Junta, sorry for the secret service.
The only problem with extortion is that, after an engaging first hour, in which the viewer is well taken to the center of the plot, written by Emanuel Diez (the series The one in chargewith Francella, e Nothingby Cohn and Duprat, forthcoming) has some less convincing resolutions.
It does not matter. The cast is solvent, solid. To those mentioned we must add Alberto Ajaka, who is the guy who always receives Alejandro, Mónica Villa and the recently deceased Julieta Vallina in Madrid.
You do not have to know, but behind extortion there is a combination of manufacturers including Juan José Campanella, Axel Kuschevatzky, Tomás Yankelevich and Hernán Musaluppi. It is distributed by a multinational (Warner Bros.) and in six weeks it will certainly be streaming on HBO Max, as happened with echoes of a crime, intuition AND an Argentinian crimeall thrillers or suspense movies like extortionthat this Holy Week will probably give another blow to national cinema.
“Extortion”
Suspense. Argentina, 2023. 106′, SAM 13 R. From: Martino Zaidelis. With: Guillermo Francella, Pablo Rago, Andrea Frigerio, Carlos Portaluppi, Guillermo Arengo. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto and Unicenter, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Avellaneda, Houssay and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano and Quilmes.
Source: Clarin
