Childish Games (2012)
Dictado (2012)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:31:35 | 5,64 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 5.1 @ 448 kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:31:35 | 5,64 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 5.1 @ 448 kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
When flaky novelist Mario turns up one day at the school where Daniel teaches, the educator is convinced the writer is a spirit from his repressed past, buried deep in his subconscious. As children, the two might almost have been brothers. But the marriage between Daniel’s father and Mario’s mother never materialised. This unexpected re-encounter brings both families together. When Mario slits his wrists and dies, Daniel and his wife Laura provide a home for the dead man’s daughter. Laura, who is childless, loves the girl from the moment they meet, but Daniel feels increasingly nervous around her. The demons of his past guilt continue to torment him. Daniel suffers agonies – until things come to a head during a show down in the mountains.
IMDB
The idea of a deadly childish prank that comes back to haunt the hero as an adult has possibilities, but the Spanish Childish Games unfolds as a disappointingly routine psychological thriller that tips its hat to Hitchcock without concocting a single truly suspenseful scene. A little bit it’s the predictable roles and acting, a little bit the tame way the central idea is developed, but the film packs limited thrills, pointing to a fast video release after local theatrical. It looked decidedly out of place in Berlin competition.
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Writer-director Antonio Chavarrías, who also produced for his company Oberon Cinematografica, bases the tale on a story by in-vogue Catalan playwright Sergi Belbel. Elementary schoolteachers Daniel (Juan Diego Botto) and Laura (Barbara Lennie) are beautiful, young and childless. When the opportunity arises to assume temporary custody of little Julia (Magica Perez), Laura jumps at the chance. Daniel goes along hesitantly, because he knows the girl’s dead father Mario (Marc Rodriguez) from when they were children.
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Daniel is tormented by a tragedy that took place when he and Mario were growing up: the “accidental” death of Mario’s little sister after the two boys buried her alive in a grave. The flashbacks to this key scene are doled out with parsimony, adding grim details each time it comes into Daniel’s mind. Now the presence of Mario’s daughter in the house –she’s the same age as little Clara– brings it all rushing back, and he begins to think Julia is a reincarnation of the dead girl, come back to exact revenge.
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First, she wears a red ribbon in her hair just like poor little Clara did, and second, she knows the same nursery rhyme. And she whispers to him that she know he’s a monster. Even the most clueless viewer will figure out the missing link between Clara and Julia, and why it doesn’t occur to Daniel is a serious scripting problem.
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Personable actors are unable to put flesh on one-note roles: Lennie’s smiling Laura is driven exclusively by her maternal urge, while Botto’s Daniel is absurdly secretive about his problem with Julia until he runs off the rails. Though the film is mercifully low-key on the subject of sexual child abuse, it does leave a bad taste in the mouth to see small children put through psychological torture. Had this been The Spirit of the Beehive, The Turn of the Screw or a similarly psychologically complex film, it would be easier to accept.
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On the plus side, the film has a smooth narrative construction and moody, melancholy camerawork from D.P. Guillermo Granillo that creates an increasingly dream-like atmosphere.
Childish Games (2012)
At first I wasn't sure about this movie. I have a problem with movies that require you to read the subtitles but this turned out to be a very good movie despite that. I honestly kept thinking this story was going in a different direction, so it really caught me by surprise once you figured out what was really happening. The flashbacks can get confusing sometimes, but it was very well woven into the storyline. I won't say anything more about the story. You really should go into this one knowing nothing about it.
A very good psychological thriller all the way to the end.IMDB Reviewer
Childish Games (2012)
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