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A thriller with a character (Nicola Francescais the film directorial debut of Riccardo CornoArgentine producer and screenwriter Tony Awarded on Broadway, which HBO Max just uploaded to its platform.
And for this film, in which he co-directs with Carlos Gil, he had the support of several companies, from Warner Bros. to Paramount and DirecTV, who have decided to support this co-production with Uruguay, which generates tension based on the situation. grown up, and surviving in this is not only a question of time, but also of sagacity.
The film, after a sexually charged start, takes place on December 21 where electric blackouts and water outages make the porteño’s life unbearable (does it sound familiar?).
Axel (Nicolás Francella) works in a call center and hides a secret. HBO photo
So that the viewer feels compelled to feel empathy for Axel Brigante (Francella) and does not want a bullet to pierce his skull, has been shown in several cases. Some play in your favor. In love with his girlfriendPaola Reca-, they plan to meet at the end of their shift at Telefonía del Sur to contract out the catering for their next wedding.
And when an inexperienced young woman from a call center calls him to offer him an ambulance service, he explains how not to scare the prospect. In other words: he is a kind of buyer who, on top of that, has an unbearable supervisor – and perhaps too warm for a December 21st -.
Secret shared with the public
“En la mira” is the third most viewed Argentine film in theaters so far in 2022.
But Axel hides a secret: he cheats on his girlfriend with Ximena (Emilia Attia in an extremely sexy floor), one of the leaders of Southern Telephony, “from the top floor”.
There will be someone with whom to find points of contact deadly bond (or phone box), the film by Joel Schumacher in which a commercial, played by Colin Farrell, is trapped in a telephone box (the film is from 2002) in New York and, if he moves, a sniper with whom he is on the phone is killed.
Axel’s secret is called Ximena (Emilia Attias), of which he is a lover.
But here the cell phones are different, Axel can move within the company’s plans. It is something else.
And also the fact that we don’t see the angry customer, who wants to be unsubscribed for multiple reasons (low internet speed, which continued to be charged despite their desire to leave the company, Telefonía del Sur, and who has made repeated claims) is a handicap of the script.
And no, that’s not the case with Bombita, the character who composed Ricardo Darín wild tales. Something else happens here.
Literally “In the crosshairs”, to survive Axel must appeal to his wits and race against time.
The film is compact and short – it does not go up to an hour and a half -, it has Nicolás Francella in 90% of the shots and in almost all the scenes, except one. There are shares of humor, has Marcelo Camorino (Nine queens, Autumn sun, The escape, The lighthouse) behind the cameras as a cinematographer, and a voice on the phone, whose identity is not easy to discover and of course we will not reveal here.
You have to press play to see it.
“intuition”
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thriller. Argentina / Uruguay, 2022. Of: Ricardo Hornos and Carlos Gil. With: Nicolas Francella, Emilia Attias, Paula Reca. Available in: HBO Max.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
