El nuevo método
2020 · 24m · España
Directed by Mateo García
A private detective investigating a disappearance on his own crosses paths with a young theatre actor dreaming of a leading role. Dark secrets gradually come to light in both stories.
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Two parallel mysteries that politely decline to intersect feels like the setup for something genuinely twisted, but García opts for the noir textbook instead—competent, watchable, utterly predictable.
The formal restraint here is admirable: two narratives held in careful tension, the editing resisting easy cross-cutting, each thread permitted its own temporal rhythm before the inevitable convergence—a structure that respects the audience's intelligence and the crime genre's architectural traditions.
The casting of an aspiring actor as the second mystery works harder than it should: we're watching someone perform ambition while García's camera holds them at arm's length, and that precise distance between performer and frame becomes the film's real subject.