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A Common Crime

Un crimen común

2020

Francisco Márquez

Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez, Cecilia Rainero, Eliot Otazo ...

5.8

164

Thriller One night in the pouring rain, Kevin, the adolescent son of Cecilia’s housekeeper, knocks on her door. A sociology lecturer and financially secure, Cecilia lives alone with her young child. She is too afraid to let Kevin in. The next day, his body is found in a river. The neighborhood accuses the police of having hounded the teenager and social unrest rocks this impoverished part of town. Cecilia, tormented by her guilty conscience., ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Directed with stylistic canniness and empathetic insight, the film features a superb, elusive, genuinely unnerving performance by Elisa Carricajo"	POS
	Carlota Moseguí Cineuropa	"[Elisa Carricajo] offers up a magnificent performance"	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"The film´s great asset, along Carricajo´s performance, is how seemingly mundane elements become the tools in succinctly portraying an alarming state in society."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Chilling ghost story with a social conscience (...) A smart piece of work (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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