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The Intruder

Horizons 2021 / El prófugo / Argentina, Mexico 2020

Can the things from our nightmares enter our waking life? Inés is struggling to recover from a tragic loss, but the terrors she is experiencing threaten her work as a dubbing artist. Something seems to be creeping closer, and she is no longer sure if the people who want to help her are truly on her side. The film had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the main competition.

The Intruder

Synopsis

Can the things from our nightmares enter our waking life? Inés is struggling to recover from a tragic loss, but the terrors she is experiencing threaten her work as a dubbing artist. Something seems to be creeping closer, and she is no longer sure if the people who want to help her are truly on her side. In The Intruder, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the main competition, Natalia Meta adopts a masterful approach to genre, crossing horror with psychological metaphors. The invisible monster takes shapes slowly thanks in part to Érica Rivas’s lead performance and also thanks to the sound design, which has been dramaturgically adapted to each specific setting: dubbing studio, concert hall, or the inner mechanism of an organ.

Vít Kořínek

About the film

95 min / Color, DCP

Director Natalia Meta / Screenplay Natalia Meta / Dir. of Photography Bárbara Álvarez / Music Luciano Azzigotti / Editor Eliane Katz / Art Director Ailí Chen / Producer Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Natalia Meta, Fabiana Tiscornia / Production Rei Cine, Picnic Producciones / Coproduction Barraca Producciones, Infinity Hill / Cast Érica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth / Sales Film Factory Entertainment

About the director

Natalia Meta

Natalia Meta (Buenos Aires). Filmography: Death in Buenos Aires (Muerte en Buenos Aires, 2014), The Intruder (El prófugo, 2020).

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