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Ernesto HerreraCast:
Cristina Brondo, Mirella Pascual, Gimena Blesa, Arnaldo André, Gustavo Garzón, Diego Cremonesi, Sebastián De Caro, Jorge Pinarello, Berta MuñizVOD (1)
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Marga is a highly motivated, arrogant and successful businesswoman from Spain on assignment in Buenos Aires, a city she hates and whose people she loathes. While in the Argentine capital on a day the whole population is waiting to view a rare solar eclipse, she must also find a new tenant for her family's decrepit apartment.
Rapidly losing her patience, she comes upon the mysterious Jorge lurking outside the front door, who informs her that he has a client willing to pay four times what she is asking in rent. There's just one catch - the paperwork must be signed immediately. As Marga waits to complete the transaction, several of Jorge's associates suspiciously appear at the apartment, and before long Marga discovers that their plan for the building and for her may mean a startling fate worse than death.
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It’s nice to see Borgliano moving beyond the boundaries of cheap exploitation towards increasingly interesting projects in increasingly interesting genres. Penumbra is not even horror any more, Borgliano delays the moment when “things start to happen” in an almost hedonistic way; bloodthirsty viewers will not be very happy (it was really funny during the screening how they cursed the director and prayed for the mysterious Mr Salva to finally show up :-D). Most of it is basically a nicely made conversational drama that at times is almost unexpectedly comedic and cynical, and in a way it reminded me of the recent Sleep Tight, by Balagueró. Many people will not like it, so I’m hesitant to recommend it, but for me 7/10.
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Penumbra is an Argentinian-Mexican production that has a rather interesting, creeping atmosphere. It is hard to know much about what is going on for a large part of the movie. Once it is revealed, you may not be thrilled about it, although it is still weird enough to hold your attention. It is not a gory horror movie, although it is a horror movie that can certainly capture your imagination with its atmosphere.
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