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Intacto (2001)

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03:40-05:25 Sun 14th Dec 2008 105m
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Having landed an Oscar nomination for his short film Linked, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo makes a solid feature debut with this dispassionate study of chance, survival, identity and greed. Strewn with imposing set pieces and tellingly intimate details, it's a film that puts plot and impact above characterisation. The premise that luck can be stolen is pursued with an unrelenting logic that brings any number of unexpected twists, as gambler Eusebio Poncela exploits the gift for good fortune of petty thief and plane-crash survivor Leonardo Sbaraglia, in order to exact revenge on casino boss Max von Sydow. Atmospherically photographed by Xavier Jiménez, this is slick and superficial, but it's also irresistibly intriguing.