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In another example of the power of streaming platforms, releases to produce Argentine films that only a few years ago would have had a commercial release in huge theaters (with Greetingswith Guillermo Francella at the helm as the most striking example), God’s angerwhich will be premiered on Wednesday 15 June Netflix has everything to be successful: Diego PerettiJuan Minujín, a novel by a recognized author (Guillermo Martínez).

Also a director who did not make his debut in the psychological thriller genre, like Sebastián Schindel, but who showed signs of being a storyteller with capital letters (The diagram, an x-ray of a crime, Son Y family crimes).

Y?

And that God’s angerbased on The slow death of Luciana B.which Martínez released in 2007, okay, it works as entertainment, but after an auspicious start it’s hard to generate or maintain the same intrigue it starts with.

Which is located in the current El Ateneo bookshop, where the beautiful Grand Splendid cinema once stood. There, Koster (Peretti) is glorified as he reads an excerpt from Odile and Odettea new novel and a best seller coming out, when Esteban Rey (Minujín) tells him that Luciana (Macarena Achaga. Michelle Salas in Luis Miguel, the series) is waiting for you at the superpullman.

“It’s because of Valentina”, he whispers, and also makes it clear that if you don’t want a scandal, you better go and see her.

It’s not been five minutes since the sound of a body crashing to the floor, and that would have fallen from above, already sows an intrigue. A stranger who God’s anger It will continue to weave and untangle in just over an hour and a half.

Because the film dates back a dozen years, when we see Koster dictating another novel to Luciana. On the part of the writer – married, daughter of the same age as Luciana’s sister … Valentina – a look at the young woman who denounces something similar to lust.

Without ruining anything, over the years there will be several deaths in the family of Luciana, who suspects Koster, with whom she has stopped working.

And Luciana calls Rey, now a journalist, with whom, curiously, she has also worked on level typing.

damn obsession

Obsession, which is always excessive, of course, envy and resentment come together as axes on which Schindel decides that history hinges.

And since it is a thriller, there are no clichés but classic notes such as the protagonist’s pilot who investigates, to shelter from the rain, some appropriate thunder, alcohol camouflaged in a cup of coffee, a cigarette, the keys thrown when arriving at the ‘apartment.

The jumps in time do not confuse, even if they try to hide the motivations of the trio of characters.

Performance is somewhat erratic. Here, too, Peretti plays a successful writer, as in the recent thriller Echoes of a crime, and he seems tied up, he acts more than saying or hearing his lines of dialogue. Minujín sometimes remembers the character of him from the beer commercial due to his pitch, and Achaga has perhaps the only role that shows that she is undergoing a change and respects it.

Technically flawless, with a production that shines, God’s anger satisfies with its task of entertaining for an hour and a half, but until the end one has the feeling of having to change gear, jump into fourth. Or at least third.

“God’s anger”

Good

Psychological thriller. Argentina, 2022. 98 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Sebastian Schindel. With: Diego Peretti, Juan Minujín, Macarena Achaga, Mónica Antonópulos. Available in: Netflix.