Rafa (Louis Tossari, a three-time Goya winner) is a lawyer with strong social convictions. When he’s given a new job, he’s in a race against time to find the child’s missing mother, or the little girl will be placed in a home. Nothing works after midnight.
His investigation leads him to Azucena (the quintessential Penélope Cruz), a woman unjustly threatened with banishment, whose only hope lies in the popular uprising she is trying to incite.
Although the paths of these two characters are moving in parallel, an unprecedented rebellion is taking place in the streets of Madrid, caused by the anger of all the remaining people.
A relentless thriller, fused with political and social commitment
Spanish actor Juan Diego Boto, in his first film as a director, applies the main rules of the “film-dossier” in the direct line of Dark Waters, Goliath or Black Box. Caught in a fierce race against time, its heroes (brilliantly embodied by two legendary actors) fight for their rights and freedoms, but above all, to bring out the truth against the organizations whose power dominates them.
Aside from the eloquent speeches and chases through the streets of Madrid, À contretemps shines with a gritty, even brutal, realism in both its subject matter and its setting. From unsanitary apartments to courts to law firms, the film Juan Diego Boto It draws strength from anger at injustice and recalls, in its realistic and quasi-documentary treatment, Maven’s powerful polis.
A true cry of anguish, vibrating with power and the desire for justice, À contretemps may be one of the must-see films of the summer. It will be in theaters from July 5.
Source: Allocine
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