In the Quarry (2019) User Reviews

This movie drags and takes too long before anything happens

[kevin_robbins · 3/10 · 6 May 2023]

In the Quarry (2019) is a Uruguay thriller that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows a couple that go on a trip to a quarry camping out with some friends. A strange tension forms between the couples until someone snaps and things get out of hand...

This movie is co-written and directed by Rafael and Bernardo Antonaccio in their major motion picture debut. This stars Paula Silva (Ghosting Gloria), Rafael Beltrán (Milonga) and Augusto Gordillo Lisboa.

This is a movie that takes way too long to get going. There storyline just drags and the ending was a let down. The entire film is shot at one location. The first hour of the movie is just swimming and talking; however, when things start happening I was entertained. There are some good scenes with a knife and a solid fishing hook sequence 🎣. Those elements were done well. This does have subtitles.

Overall, this movie drags and takes too long before anything happens. I would score this a 3/10 and recommend skipping it.

Dull slow moving gender politics.

[jmbovan-47-160173 · 3/10 · 27 December 2023]

So, a woman who is dating a controlling abusive man, and she is having an affair with an old friend. The couple, this man, and a another male who is an old friend of the woman spend the day at a quarry. She shuns her boyfriend. The lover is agitated. Boyfriend seethes. Violence occurs. The woman is helpless. The abuser is insecure. The lover wants to ride in as a White Knight savior. The other friend is texting to get a "hot woman" he wants to have sex with to come to the quarry.

Whew! That's a lot of nothing. I'm not dismissing the need to understand domestic violence and be available to be supportive, take action, protect, etc. This movie unfortunately doesn't add anything new or serious; it simply depicts this dynamic and then creates drama for the sake of the movie. And it takes forever to get there.

Oh and there is some analogy related to turtles that doesn't make any sense I could find. Or maybe it was just a piece of random information that was added to the film. I don't know.

excellent movie!

[elexum · 9/10 · 11 April 2019]

This movie is one of my favourites. it explores very deep issues in our societies and the actors did an amazing work! highly recommendable :)

"A peasant-like thing to do."

[morrison-dylan-fan · 9/10 · 9 November 2020]

On the final day of the online Cine-Excess festival,I decided to take a early look at reviews for the films about to be streamed. Having joined in the two online Frightfest this year,I was interested to learn that Quarry had actually been screened at the lone in-cinema version of the festival in Glasgow early this year,leading to me visiting the quarry.

View on the film:

Laying in the quarry to catch some rays, the ensemble cast great performances, with Luis Pazos and Rafael Beltran keeping their venomous hatred barely under the surface, whilst Paula Silva turns the care-free flirting of Alicia into ice cold fear from the vision of the quarry being covered in blood.

Set entirely in one location, co-writers/directing brothers Rafael and Bernardo Antonaccio somersault into a scorching hot atmosphere by using the ultra-stylised fluidity of the French New Wave (FNW),smashing waves into the camera getting up-close to Alicia in the sea,until it swims backwards to hand-held close-ups pinned to the growing rage between the lads.

Reeling in the off the cuff remarks signalling friction before they had reached the quarry, the writers expertly present a atmosphere grinding to an inevitable doom that leaves the bourgeoisie jet-set gang a bloody mess on the floor.

Splashing out a pristine, evil under the sun appearance across the quarry, the Antonaccio's cut open the red hot animalistic aggression with pounding quick-cut jabs taking out eyeballs and lives. Picking up the bloody mess, the Antonaccio's unleash a desperate rush from the survivors to escape from their former decadent secluded paradise, before more blood is spilled in the quarry.