El castigo
Matías Bize
Filmfestival
Thu 27 Apr 23
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Mon 1 May 23
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Thu 27 Apr 23
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Fri 28 Apr 23
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Sun 30 Apr 23
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Mon 1 May 23
Ana is behind the wheel. Next to her is her husband, Mateo. Together, they are driving through the forest. The tension in the car is palpable. Mateo begs her to turn around, but Ana drives on. After two long minutes she finally turns around. On the spot they left their son, they only find his cap. What was meant to be a punishment, quickly turns into every parents’s nightmare.
In one single, uncut scene of almost an hour and a half, we follow Ana and Mateo while their marriage slowly crumbles. But the film is much more than this technical tour de force: ‘The Punishment’ takes hold of you with its first image and never lets you go.
- direction
- Matías Bize
- cast
- Antonia Zegers, Néstor Cantillana, Yair Juri
- duration
- 85 min
- year
- 2022
- country
- Argentina, Chile
- language
- Spanish
- Subtitles
- Dutch
With just one take and a clockwork script, ‘El castigo’ makes you cling to the seat.