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Drama, Mystery, Thriller 155 min
IMDb7.1
Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
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"Alice" (Bárbara Lennie) is a private investigator trying to get to the bottom of what she thinks might have been a murder in a prestigious sanatorium. She concludes that the best way to do that is to feign being worthy of admission but once she is through the large metal gates of this establishment, she soon realises that it's boss "Dr. Alvar" (Eduard Fernández) is not a man to be crossed. That's going to make her investigation quite difficult, especially once she realises that she can glean little from the heavily drugged patients nor from the loyal team of medical professionals who run the place. Running in parallel to her detective work, we learn of another fatality at the institution and so now "Alice" has to conclude if these events might be connected - all against an increasingly perilous background for herself as it appears that perhaps "Alvar" is aware that she isn't all she claims to be. There isn't really any need for this film to go on for quite so long, indeed if it condensed the last hour into half of that time, it would greatly increase the accruing sense of complicated menace that auteur Oriol Paulo has crafted here. There are twists and turns galore as the plot thi
Read the whole review on TMDBDirector Oriol Paulo delivers an exceptional psychological thriller set in a 1970s asylum that keeps you constantly guessing whether protagonist Alice is a brilliant private investigator trapped in a conspiracy or a masterfully manipulative patient in her own delusion. Bárbara Lennie carries the entire film with commanding charisma, alongside Eduard Fernández as the stoic hospital director. With its fantastic production design and tense score, this layered puzzle box of a film makes every minute engaging and stands as essential viewing for fans of cerebral mystery thrillers.
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