Berlin on Netflix: Did you notice this nod to one of cinema’s greatest shots?

Berlin : robbery and romance in Paris

Netflix put the series online on December 29, 2023 Berlina spin-off of The Paper House which takes place before the events of the famous Spanish show. We still find a character from the first series, as this new program presents Andrés de Fonollosa (Pedro Alonso), aka Berlin, who is preparing an exceptional robbery in the heart of Paris. From the first episode we discover part of his plan which will allow him to get his hands on jewels worth several million euros.

For this reason he is accompanied by a great team made up of Damian (Tristán Ulloa), the friendly Kella (Michelle Jenner), the sulphurous Cameron (Begoña Vargas), the dark King (Julio Peña) and the energetic and friendly Bruce (Joel Sánchez ). . For several days they will implement the plan imagined by Berlin and Damian to discreetly infiltrate where the jewels will be stored. Their time is therefore limited, but this does not prevent Berlin gets distracted by Camillewho observes in the apartment opposite the luxury hotel where the gang resides.

It doesn’t take long for the man to fall in love with her and leave do everything to seduce her. As a good sociopath that he is, he indulges in lies and manipulation, despite being sincerely in love with her. But the closer he gets to her, the more he risks her discovering the truth. And so is she very close to episode 2.

A sequence shot with reference to Robert Zemeckis

After spending the evening together, Berlin and Camille meet again the next day when the young woman leaves unexpectedly in front of the robber’s hotel room (26 minutes into episode 2). The latter obviously can’t let her in, as the room is full of devices pointed towards her house to observe her. Then he pretends that he doesn’t want a simple relationship with her, and he rejects her on the pretext that she is married. But immediately after closing the door, he changes his mind and goes to find Camille.

In a beautiful shot, we see it walk down the corridor before the camera revealed that it actually was his reflection in a mirror, when he kisses Camille in the elevator. A shot that must surely have made viewers tremble, given that we have already seen the same process in a much more impressive way Roberto Zemeckis. He is in fact the director who made many viewers turn their heads Contact (1997) and its famous “mirror sequence”.

In it we see a young Jenna Malone who, after discovering that her father is unconscious, runs upstairs in her house to the bathroom. The sequence goes in slow motion and in the final moments we discover that the image was from the medicine cabinet mirror. An ingenious plan that we never get tired of, even when we know the technique used to implement it.

In any case, the reference of Berlin to Zemeckis’ film is rather obvious, even if completely gratuitous. The series is available on Netflix.

Source: Cine Serie

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