Veronica (2017)
Directed by Paco Plaza
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
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El retrato que se realiza de este personaje femenino y su complicado entorno es, a la postre, ese gran acierto que marca la diferencia con otras apuestas de similares características, haciendo que trascienda como un poderoso drama costumbrista que habla de temas tan valiosos como las dificultades para superar la pérdida del ser querido (excusa que sirve para que la joven se decida a tratar de contactar con su padre muerto), el difícil tránsito de niña a mujer –desde Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976), nunca una primera menstruación había sido representada de forma tan traumática en la gran pantalla– o la fascinación del ser humano hacia lo desconocido.
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The men who dug deeper: director Paco Plaza (one half of the duo behind contemporary horror classic [REC]) and co-writer Fernando Navarro.
Veronica, a Spanish-language horror movie from the director of [REC], is about a young woman who tries to contact her dead father during a solar eclipse.
Set in Nineties Madrid and directed by Paco Plaza, the man behind the excellent [Rec], it starts promisingly.
Director Paco Plaza has been known as a filmmaking force in the horror genre with his [REC] film franchise.
We don't talk about the third [Rec] movie, but his returning to the fold with a full-on Ouija-gone-wrong film is something to celebrate.
As one half of the directing tandem responsible for the Spanish [REC] horror franchise, Paco Plaza has a reputation to maintain.
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