2016 ‘Contratiempo’ Directed by Oriol Paulo
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.
I went in totally blind! Hadn't a clue as to what I was in for with this exceptional crime thriller out of Spain brought to us by Writer/Director Oriol Paulo and it turned out to be an incredibly thrilling if not maddening journey to the dark side of the justice system! I'm a total crime geek so this film was made to order!
The plot like the indescretion between two adulterers highlighted in the film escalates after a tragic accident creating the snowball effect from hell, it just keeps growing bigger and darker as the story unfurls until it is completely out of control and there is beaucoup hell to pay as a result!
Once Ms. Goodman (Ana Wagener) the…
PLOT TWISTS SO MANY PLOT TWISTS... This was amazing, the actors were excellent and the whole thing was so unpredictable. WOW.
Brillant geschriebener, toll gespielter und twistvoller Psycho-Thriller, der den Zuschauer von der ersten bis zur letzten Sekunde fesselt. Was für ein fantastischer Film. Das spanische Kino zählt zum faszinierendsten, was der europäische Film zu bieten hat.
Supremely goofy, one of those mysteries where everyone makes the worst possible decision at every turn simply to justify endless absurd twists. At least this sort of thing is funny.
Christopher Nolan, under the pressure of backlash from his semi-recent filmé The Dark Knight Rises, has created a Spanish alias in order to trick us into not comparing his filmography or judging his work as too "mainstream." In doing so he has created his pet project, "The Invisible Guest," where, just as in The Prestige, the very essence of WHY the film was made is engraved into the movie's plot. In The Prestige the movie's plot is a stand-in for the creative process that Nolan goes through in making a movie. In his alias filmé, the ploté is a stand in for his alias. The woman that comes to Adrian's defense is the director of this movie...ONLY TO BE REVEALED…
Oriol Paulo can write a story, that's for sure. Writing this kind of puzzle requires a vivid imagination.
Well-acted and marvelously written, Paulo's Contratiempo gives the similar exciting, intriguing couple hour experience that for example Timecrimes and Wild Tales gave. Not a moment of boredom or dullness. It might resemble The Girl on the Train. But it's smart. And Spanish. And infinitely better.
é muito legal quando as coisas começam de um jeito e terminam de outro totalmente inespCARTEIRA DE MOTORISTA
Первый час интересно. На середине ты понимаешь концовку. Потом спустя полчаса тебе дают ещё одну концовку. И ты вроде думаешь, что не прав, но и полчаса много для концовки все равно. А в итоге оказываешься прав по обоим пунктам и становится жалко времени.
my first experience watching Spanish movies. bagusss & worth it untuk dilihat sampe akhir. sejenis gone girl tapi lebih reasonable??
The Invisible Guest is the kind of cheesy mystery with a few too many twists and turns for its own good. A lot of mysteries have trouble with this; not quite knowing when they need to start pumping the breaks lest the whole plot go careening off a cliff (or, perhaps, into a lake). Don't get me wrong, this is definitely the kind of story that made for solid b-tier noirs back in the 1940's, but that was when the overall cheese factor was higher in most films in general. So while cheesy twists might not have been a mark of excellence back then, they at least didn't stick out like a sore thumb either.
The Invisible Guest's last, completely…
The Invisible Guest starts off with a decent premise, utilising complex storytelling, unreliable narrators, and a strong central mystery. Unfortunately, as soon as the setup is established, the film promptly becomes ridiculous and gets convoluted in nonsensical plotting and illogical character motivations. Stories within stories within stories can be fascinating, but The Invisible Guest just overcomplicates itself to gloss over all its many story problems. It seems to think that endless twists, as opposed to plausible and foolproof ones, are what blows the viewer's mind. If you have twenty twists and nineteen are dumb, you don't get points for the less dumb one tricking the audience. Such twist-heavy storytelling is tiring and ultimately insulting as it assumes the audience will…
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