Thursday 22 August 2013

La Cara Oculta (Andrés Baiz, 2011)

A Spanish couple move to Colombia when the man gets a job conducting the local philharmonic orchestra. Initially happy, his girlfriend develops suspicions that he's cheating on her, and through discovering a hidden panic room in their new house, devises a scheme to find out what he's up to. This goes badly wrong.
The Hidden Face has the basic features of a thriller but never really takes off as such, with aspects of the scenario not making a great deal of sense, and the orchestral sequences are somewhat spurious. On the other hand, it does function quite adequately as a study of jealousy and distrust in relationships. Diverting, then, but too caught between two stools to stand out as either thriller or psychological drama.

5/10

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