Review of Mirage

Mirage (2018)
7/10
Tense thriller plenty of suspense , thrills, supernatural events and a complex intrigue.
4 March 2022
Durante la tormenta (2018) or Mirage is an intriguing and supernatural thriller with interesting screenplay plenty of twists and turns . In 1989, during the fall of the Berlin Wall and a 72-hour-long electrical storm a boy named Nico (Julio Bohigas) , while recording a video in his house, hears some noises and watches a discussion scene in his neighbors' home through a window. He goes to the house only to find the body of Ms. Weiss , the wife of the neighbor Angel Prieto (Javier Gutiérrez) . Meantime, a disturbing young called Vera Roy (Adriana Ugarte) attempts to save him and uncover weird mysteries . She tries to find out a solution around the threatening and bizarre incidents , but things go wrong. As the desperado woman tells these events but no one sees to believe except for a police Inspector (Chino Darin). For whom you would stop the time !

Taut and slick thriller in128 min minutes titled Durante la tormenta or Mirage packing supernatural events in which a wife become involved into a twisted intrigue with only 72 hours to discover the truth. The film contains tension , thriller , drama , mystery , plot twists , shocks , including decent scares with tense sequences especially in its final part , in a unexpected denouement , near of the end . Suspenseful and mysterious flick with a wife and a little boy caught into fear , despair and paranoia . Twisted and complex script written by Lara Sendim and director Oriol Paulo himself. Main and support cast are frankly well. Adriana Ugarte gives a nice acting as the nurse who everybody thinks she's suffering shizophrenia and begins a dangerous race against time to save her daughter and to avoid that crime will repeat , seeking a way to prevent it . While Chino Darin is pretty fine as the stubborn police inspector who holds dark secrets . Support cast with full of familar faces , they're frankly good , such as : Javier Gutiérrez , Álvaro Morte , Belén Rueda, Nora Navas , Francesc Orella, Ana Wagener , Silvia Alonso, Belén Rueda, Miquel Fernández , Clara Segura , Aina Clotet , among others.

The fim packs an atmospheric and stirring musical score by Fernando Velazquez . And an evocative and colorful cinematography by Xavi Giménez , shot on various location in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Barcelona, Catalonia , Parc audiovisual de Catalunya, Terrassa, Catalonia, L'Ametlla del Vallés, Barcelona , Spain . The film was well financed by various producers , such as Mercedes Gamero , Sandra Hermida , Contreras, Mikel Lejarza, Eneko Lizarraga, Jaime Romero ; all of them have produced a lot of successes in the new Spanish cinema . Being professionally written and directed by Oriol Paulo who formerly realized only short movies as McGuffin , Tapes and Eve and wrote ¨The Julia's eyes¨. In 2012 he wrote and directed his first feature, ¨The Body¨. Paulo nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards and won the Best Film Award at the Fantastic Film Festival in Paris for The Body. In 2016 he wrote the script of ¨Boy Missing¨, directed by Mar Tarragona. In 2017 Paulo wrote and directed ¨The Invisible Guest¨ with Mario Casas, Barbara Lennie and José Coronado as protagonists. From 2016 onwards, Oriol Paulo works as the writer and director of the television series ¨Night and Day¨. The movie will appeal to suspense and Sci-Fi fans . Rating : Good , better than average . It's well worth watching and contains some really thrilling scenes and attractive images .
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