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Contratiempo Review (Crime Thriller, 2016)

Last updated May 27, 2020
Learn more about the movie "Contratiempo" released in 2016. Honestly review and critics. Is it worthing to watch "The Invisible Guest"?
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Contratiempo - Storyline, Actors And Ratings

The movie "Contratiempo" is a Crime Thriller production.

IMDB rated the movie with 7.5 / 10.

According to Google Users - 85% of the people watched the movie liked the story.

Director: Oriol Paolo Actors: Jose Coronado, Mario Casas, Ana Wachener, Barbara Lenny, Francesc Orella, Paco Tous, David Selvas, Inigo Gastesi, San Elamos, Manel Duoso

Contiempo has been produced with the budget of Budget: $4.8 million. Interesting and exciting.

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Contratiempo Review

Adrian Doria (Mario Casas) - young successful Businessman. It would seem that he has not a life, but Fairy Tale: A beautiful family, a great home. To he was recently announced businessman of the year.

But in Adrian's life everything is stark changes when it is discovered in locked from the inside room secluded standing in the mountains of the hotel, and in that the same number -- the corpse of his mistress Laura Bidal (Barbara Lenny) and the room scattered a very large sum of money.

Adrian explains that his specially framed that the room was someone third -- that's what he killed Laura. However, there is no evidence of this, and Adriana is placed under house arrest before the trial Arrest.

He then decides invite to protect the famous lawyer Virginia Goodman (Ana Wahener). Virginia is famous for never losing, and that's going to be her last job, so especially since she just doesn't have the right Lose.

Virginia comes to The Apartment to Adrian and begins figuring out how it was. At first, Adrian not inclined to be outspoken, but the lawyer explains to him that she can't win the case if he doesn't know the whole Truth. And gradually Adrian starts her to talk about the whole chain of events, which eventually led to such a terrible denouement and ruined his entire Life.

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I am Generally love Spanish detective stories Thrillers: they are markedly different from American, and and the plots in them Interesting.

This film was advised to me, I looked into the movie base, saw that the rating is very high and decided that I will Watch.

Started watch -- and something this movie is in style and manner of staging recalled famously swirling Spanish detective thriller "The Body" that I saw about five years ago. Looked at the name of the director - and it's the same Oriol Paolo. Well, no wonder why the style seemed familiar.

Starts "Invisible Guest" (original the name translates as trouble, trouble, obstacle) not very vigorously, Well, also the actions of the main characters in some of the points seem counterintuitive, but the farther, the more Virginia unwinding Adrian's frankness, and it becomes clear that Adrian did not too sincere with his lawyer. And at Virginia principle: it is ready to defend anyone, but only if full of truthfulness.

And here begins a difficult game between lawyer and Adrian. Businessman is clearly something doesn't say anything, and Virginia have to literally to investigate by comparing the information that Adrian reports trying to recreate the real Picture.

To watch it's very interesting, especially since the investigation process is not only various details are added, but also the very picture of action is changing, and more than once.

And the director (a.k.a. the author script) for viewers saved some very spectacular storylines twists that are being watched you can suspect, but that's to be straight to guess at all -- I, for example, don't It's a go.

Choice Mario Casas as Adrian at first wonder, but the further, the better this character was revealed, and to I had no questions at the end of the film why the director chose him. Because handsome something handsome (why wouldn't be so young successful businessman, really), but at times Adrian was looking at something a little bit. Sinister.

Yes and his moral image, let's face it bluntly, very unperfect, and those troubles which he had brought upon his head and head of several other people, were quite natural. Here's why innocent people were hurt . so it's because there's no-no justice.

If would Adrian enjoyed happy family life in the company of a beautiful wife and a wonderful child, that's how he would have lived - I didn't. No, he definitely needs to. was to have an affair on the side, and it's the usual affair - NEW TO BEFORE YOU AND NADO, CABRON, said me and the cat Bagel as ardent zeators of real, and not cinematic family values.

Barbara Lenny quite effectively played a beauty-photographer Laura Bidal, and her role was very uneasy and diverse, but I don't I'll tell you details so as not to the spoiler.

The main decoration of the film, of course - it's a lawyer Virginia Goodman, who is utterly Alooker played wonderfully. The lady in age, able to unwind criminals on the recognition, with a very solid character and a great experience. Of course, Adrian was not with her. coping, and she eventually got from it the information that I did. Excellent role - bright and Spectacular.

In the So, looked with a great pleasure and believe that Oriol Paolo as a screenwriter and director is clearly growing. And "The Body" was quite worthy. thriller, and "The Invisible Guest" - more exciting and interesting.

On IMDB rating is just off the scale, but 8.1 is, in my opinion, too much. In the system IMDB rankings (and it's complicated, and there Used at all not average arithmetic) I would bet 7.5.

So if you like the strong, original detective thrillers with sharp plot twists -- I think You're going to love it.

P. S. I was looking at Spanish, there there was still a multi-voice from AlexFilm. Listened - sort of translated and voiced pretty good, impression of the movie won't spoil if you watch in this version.

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Contratiempo - Trailer

Sinopsis: Acusando de un asesinato del que se declara inocente, el exitoso empresario Adrián Doria contrata los servicios de Virginia Goodman, la mejor preparadora de testigos del país. En el transcurso de una noche, ambos trabajarán para encontrar una duda razonable que le libre de la cárcel. La aparición de un nuevo testigo de cargo amenaza con destrozar la estrategia de la defensa obligándoles a recomponer a contrarreloj las piezas de un puzle imposible

Director: Oriol Paulo Reparto: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie, Francesc Orella, Paco Tous, David Selvas, Iñigo Gastesi

Comments 34

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hot__dreams1 answered · May 27, 2020
I didn't like it. Very leisurely. The final plot turn, in my opinion, is coming to the end of the film right towards the unraveling. At any time, I had almost no doubts for the final. And most importantly - the motivation of the main character remains under a big question, clear answers to which never sounded.
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awakinea answered · May 27, 2020
The unconditional film is stronger than the "Body" of the same director. And if I hadn't seen "The Body," this movie would have made a much bigger impression. But because of the similarity of the tie-up of the plots, it is easy to guess and denouement. Car accident, attempt to conceal traces of crime, complex intrigue in order to bring the hero to clean water. Well, what is there, that here - too complex multi-way operation is hardly realized in reality. In short, the film is a good example of the genre of thrillers, but does not add anything to this genre.
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solempettie answered · May 27, 2020
So. In my opinion, it is possible to spoiler 😄 to this place of discussion for a long time. - - - - It's a tough movie. Very atmospheric. From the conventions I was perhaps strained by the main - that a couple of pensioners can deploy such a case at this level. That the father-engineer is capable of such a combination - I admit. But the mother suddenly turns out to be a genius-manipulator of the hundredth level, holding in his head a bunch of parameters (and even after a stroke, although this point we know only from their words). I forgot who she was working there before. Two very strong scenes: Laura at the parents of the boy and the scene where it turns out that the guy was drowned.
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terrence71 answered · May 27, 2020
Thank you for the tip! It's been a while since I've seen such a famously swirling detective. The first couple of twists unraveled, but the final was completely unexpected. Just glitter!
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partyderik answered · May 27, 2020
Thanks for the recommendation from the gourmet movie. "How Valka Garlic took Lohu Pin to the house of the disabled." Left in the unvere........ trade from acting and film productions. It is especially interesting to look next to the ribbon of the new wave of symbolism of Atlantis. One different language. And of course, you're interested in your opinion.
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gobows3 answered · May 27, 2020
A good film, but not devoid of cinematic conventions. It is like: the recording obtained in an unspoken (and even more illegal) way, has no evidentiary force in court.
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mia_queen7 answered · May 28, 2020
Kaleva: A good film, but not devoid of cinematic conventions. It is like: the recording obtained in an unspoken (and even more illegal) way, has no evidentiary force in court. Exactly! It is unlikely that the current legislation of Spain allows this. It would hardly allow this at the moment when the plot of the film takes place. Although it is, as it is served, it is exactly these days. Except that only if the action in some parallel reality takes place, where it is possible in Spain, and the court will accept it, then without problems. But it's unlikely. I don't think it's such a parallel universe. It's still a big spot on the head of the hero. In terms of tarnishing his reputation. Those characters should not merge this record on the Internet or somewhere else to send. And that's it, all businessmen will turn their backs on him. The second episode of the fourth season of "Sherlock" was the same. Holmes made an audio recording of how one criminal intended to kill Holmes himself (sorry for the spoilers), and with confessions. But then Detective Watson said that this recording could not be used in court anyway, because: "Technically, it was a provocation. It doesn't really matter, he's still starting to testify, he's not going to stop him." The same thing might work here. That businessman is just scared and will tell about everything in spirit. Maybe his lawyers will cover up. Moreover, there was one character who received a bribe for silence. Oh, tells me something, would go in reality such a scoundrel and the killer (and it turns out that he is also a killer) from retribution!
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sizzlepurrl1 answered · May 28, 2020
Kaleva: A good film, but not devoid of cinematic conventions. It is like: the recording obtained in an unspoken (and even more illegal) way, has no evidentiary force in court.
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justchace answered · May 28, 2020
Kaleva: A good film, but not devoid of cinematic conventions. It is like: the recording obtained in an unspoken (and even more illegal) way, has no evidentiary force in court. That record - the tenth thing, the main thing - a cross with a place where the car and the drowned, hand-placed on the map killer, found on this place car and criminal corpse together with evidence and record - it's quite murderous docks.
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kimmykat018 answered · May 29, 2020
Kaleva: A good film, but not devoid of cinematic conventions. It is like: the recording obtained in an unspoken (and even more illegal) way, has no evidentiary force in court.
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kittenxbaby answered · May 29, 2020
By the way, I'm confused by one more point. Below is a spoiler. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it really the record that was made at the end and the police will accept it and it will probably be used in court under Spanish law? Isn't that what is called "provocation" in foreign jurisprudence? And is it possible to bring it to court if this recording was not made with the permission of the judge? Upd.: In addition, I love it when the various elements that you remember involuntarily after viewing, add up to the overall picture of the narrative, not breaking out of it, but on the contrary, only complementing it. Remember how terrified a female lawyer reacted to the young businessman's words that the boy was still alive, and he actually killed him by drowning him in a car? She was terrified. That's the end of the day, and it turned out why. It was his mother.
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potterhead90 answered · May 29, 2020
Great movie, Alex, finally!) The same case, when reviewing again, you see immediately unstyally, but the impression of viewing it is not a gram or spoils. And sometimes on the contrary, everything is licked on the most glands, but it is not interesting to look at all. The magic power of cinema, epta, so it should be!)
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jean_kowalski answered · May 30, 2020
I'd lower the score by another half point. The film is not bad, but it hurts a lot of old-fashioned moves with these "seen people watching from below, how carefully he walked on the cornice", and all sorts of heck. They're not spoilers. During the holidays on the radio "Beacon" day and night played radio performances of the 70s. Including Conan Doyle's "Dancing Men" and A. Christie's Orient Express. That's power! It was a level. Want to shoot an interesting classic detective? Take the original classic and remove nothing in it without changing. And somehow X-model BMV does not really fit with wigs and heck. It's the same thing with Cumberbatch-Sherlock. However, there and the plots - sucks. I wonder if anyone watched the new Orient Express? How's that going? Is it reaching the level of our radio shows? 😄
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denispassion answered · May 30, 2020
Carroll_Oerstadt: And somehow x-models of BMV do not really fit with wigs and heck. Not a bad detective, but... yes, they don't really knit.
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trixiecookie answered · May 30, 2020
Carroll_Oerstadt: And somehow x-models of BMV do not really fit with wigs and heck.
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nanishornyyy answered · May 31, 2020
I write a separate comment, because now without spoilers (yes, about the film is almost unreal without spoilers to talk to speak in detail, fact). Casas was still in the movie "Wild Story." Which Alex also criticized. And there was a slaughterhouse in slaughter, too. Which Alex also criticized. In the case of both films, if I knew exactly who Casas was playing there, I wouldn't recognize him there. Seriously, if he hadn't gotten in now to see who he was there and there, I wouldn't have remembered him. And not because he wasn't memorable. Because it's different. However, in fairness, in the case of "Wild History" here played a role a large beard. And in the case of Slaughterhouse, long hair. But in "Fire" he really is quite, completely different in itself. It's like the actor abruptly turned off his intellect to play that role. And Jose Coronado also played in "Tele." Which Alex mentioned in the review. And Ana Wagener played "I'm Very Excited," which Alex also criticized. But to be fair, there was only her voice, and I don't know how much. After that, he decides to invite a well-known lawyer Virginia Goodman (Ana Wahener) for his defense. Virginia is famous for never losing, and this will be her last case, so even more so she simply has no right to lose. Not exactly. The decision to invite Virginia was made personally by Adrian's lawyer. Virginia was famous for it, she only told Adrian when she met. That is, he did not know it beforehand. And the "last case." No, it's not the last, it's a bonus. Adrian's lawyer said she had been retired for two months but agreed to return for the case.
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lisatwinkle answered · May 31, 2020
I had assumptions about the main-plot-twist... Below are spoilers (otherwise I could not guess how to distinguish them). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought his wife and that female lawyer were the same person. But I took this version aside, because the clear dissimilarity of the characters was a lot of speculation. In the end, when my guess was confirmed, even this nuance was explained. In general, iwasable that many casually pronounced nuances eventually formed together.
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sexytenn925 answered · May 31, 2020
Another good Spanish detective-thriller from the recent: "Forgive us, Lord"
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adruss1 answered · May 31, 2020
Thank you for the recommendation. More and more I love European cinema for its extraordinary ness and unconventionality compared to Goollywood. BUT a twist with a lawyer I predicted in the middle of the movie. Usually, if one of the characters in glasses, then he is not quite who he claims to be. BUT even that didn't spoil the pleasure of watching. It's interesting to look even at knowing where everything is going.
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shinebrights answered · June 01, 2020
If you love Spanish detectives, but you can not pass by the Miniature Island .
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sugarrushh11 answered · June 01, 2020
VitMir: The same fellow screenwriter/director O. Paolo has two more films of similar content and level: "The Body" and "The Abduction". Stix: If you love Spanish detectives, but you can't walk past Miniature Island. I saw both "The Abduction" and "Miniature Island." "Tunnel" and "Contratiempo" certainly do not reach, but keep in suspense. Only "La Isla Minima" is kind of unfinished -- I never figured out who the real head mistress was. By the way, something VERY much reminiscent of the 1st season of "True Detective" - and the plot, and the terrain, and the general atmosphere of hopelessness.
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nursezaney answered · June 01, 2020
VitMir: The same fellow screenwriter/director O. Paolo has two more films of similar content and level: "The Body" and "The Abduction".
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asiansweet_playmate answered · June 01, 2020
Stix: If you love Spanish detectives, but you can't walk past Miniature Island.
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dustin4fun88 answered · June 01, 2020
Excellent film, watched on the recommendation of the board with pleasure, also highly recommended to everyone to see. The same fellow screenwriter/director O. Paolo has two more films of similar content and level: "The Body" and "The Abduction". Played and filmed well - especially different versions of events and versions, indistinctly shown only the moment of the car accident (and how completely unrequited remained Adrian's BMW?), well, and other shoals there, discuss them - only spoiler. I, however, pretty quickly suspected the main culprit of the whole process (although I considered her some distant relative of the missing guy and the most important twist did not predict), so just waited, then spoilers ...
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morganmadness answered · June 02, 2020
Because of the high rating, it was clear that the film will be twists, so when watching them waited. And from the middle, when everything is clear, it was not so interesting to watch. In addition, it is true that you can find fault very easily. Therefore, despite the fact that the film seems to be good, more than 6.5 could not put.
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goldenrose0530 answered · June 02, 2020
My wife has a phenomenal memory on her face - and she instantly recognized the main twist. What, however, did not spoil the viewing.
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triggermeia189 answered · June 02, 2020
It's strange that Alex just got to this movie now. I once got carried away with Spanish detectives a few years ago, and I looked at the Invisible Guest, the Body, and the Epiphany (this is just this director). I recommend everything to watch. But it's only Paolo's. And there's a lot more to it than that. There's a nice section on Rutrecker. In general, Spanish and South Korean detectives were a revelation after Hollywood, which is also of course a lot of very high quality. Off. Once I bet that I will learn Spanish in six months or faster. But of course I didn't. What a pity... So many times was in Spanish-speaking countries, and above the level of the menu did not move. I would like to watch such films in the original.
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miaaa6 answered · June 02, 2020
Omega: Off. Once I bet that I will learn Spanish in six months or faster. Naïve. However, there are people who learn new languages in six months, but this usually happens somewhere with 5-7 languages and they have a phenomenal memory.
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maya_campbell answered · June 02, 2020
Omega: Off. Once I bet that I will learn Spanish in six months or faster.
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byebye7 answered · June 03, 2020
Man, that's how this movie can be criticized without spoiler? And there's something to complain about, very, very.
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mollipopp answered · June 03, 2020
Dmitri Bolkhovityanov: Man, that's how this film can be criticized, not spoiler? And there's something to complain about, very, very. Yes, you can find fault, fact. But it's still very interesting to watch.
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kinkymousie answered · June 03, 2020
Dmitri Bolkhovityanov: Man, that's how this film can be criticized, not spoiler? And there's something to complain about, very, very.
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snapislexilovef answered · June 03, 2020
Dmitri Bolkhovityanov: Man, that's how this film can be criticized, not spoiler? And there's something to complain about, very, very. Very simple - fufel)) And really fufel, cheslov.
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hanna_livexxx answered · June 03, 2020
Dmitri Bolkhovityanov: Man, that's how this film can be criticized, not spoiler? And there's something to complain about, very, very.

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