Durante la tormenta

In a film industry so over saturated with rip off and remakes it was refreshing to see something so refreshingly original even if it was a Netflix special. Whilst at times it was a little predictable there was enough other twists along with a great general premise and some great performances to make this more than worthwhile and a thoroughly entertaining time despite its occasional flaws. Well worth a watch.

This is the 3rd movie i watch for the Catalan director, and man did he deliver another masterpiece.

The plot is genius and most importantly "current" coping with this age and so original. The script itself was tight and connected ,, and even thought it was a bit slow in the beginning but turns so helpful to clear things up before introducing the "time lines change" idea.

The cast were all perfect ,, from the lead Adriana Ugarte to Álvaro Morte (the guy from the Netflix show money heist) and Chino Darín and even the kid was really good.

Netflix knows where to invest ,, the other day i read that Steven Spielberg attacking Netflix that they shouldn't be on the Oscars and so on (After they won three Oscars for Roma by Alfonso Cuarón) .. My say in this was ... "The future is now old man" , Netflix knows whats worth spending money on ,, and they harvest what they planted.

An absorbing story of time warp ,during a storm ( hence the title) ; the communication ,through an old TV set ,of a boy of the late eighties ( the fall of the wall of Berlin was a good choice ,for , to many people ,it means the end of the twentieth century ) and a contemporary woman ;and a harrowing dilemma: if she prevents the boy from being run over by a car ,little did she know that her whole life would be changed ,the worse being the loss of her daughter who becomes the girl that never was; add a murder mystery and you've got a gripping thriller , well acted, which sustains the interest till the very end .

I'd tone things down a bit nevertheless: it borrows perhaps too much from another excellent Spanish film "abre los ojos" (1997) which came aside as a shock at the time ;in spite of its unqualified brilliance, there's some "déjà vu" in " durante la tormenta" .

Being excessively binary, either you are ultra-rational and you will probably feel that this story is far-fetched, either you have a strong appetite for the 'Twilight Zone' atmospheres, and you should love this movie. If I have to be categorized, I clearly belong to the second category: I liked this story which establishes a literally extra-ordinary connection between Nico (a 12-year-old kid living in 1989) and Vera (a 30-year-old mother living in 2014), thanks to a vhs recorder and an unconventional storm. Thus, the mother prevents the death, 25 years earlier, of this teenager which implies the passage from one space-time to another: a complete new life for her, without her daughter but with the full memory of the ancient life, especially her daughter, now nonexistent. What a nightmare! But, she definitely wants her ancient life back.

These are the first 15 minutes. The continuation is to be discovered and enjoyed !

After Contratiempo and El Cuerpo, i really thought that no one could do anything better but obviously i'm wrong. I liked this film so much. Not even a moment i felt bored. Unbelievably good, wow again. Thanks.