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Abrakadabra (2018)

Directed by Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti

Crime | Mystery

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Overview

The Great Dante, a prestigious magician, accidentally dies during a risky magic trick. Thirty-five years later, his son Lorenzo, also a magician, presents a show at one of the city’s most important theaters. From this point on, a series of murders will begin to occur that someone tries to pin on him. Lorenzo will have to find out who it is and why this person wants to implicate him

Length 69 minutes

Actors

Clara Kovacic | German Baudino | Juan Bautista Massolo | Raul Gederlini | María Eugenia Rigón | Ivi Brickell

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

“Watch Movies Now” is doing a free broadcast of this movie on YT. I believe this is a giallo homage which is why I wanted to tune in.

I like this! It’s a neat Argentine take on gialli films incorporating much of the mystery and style including the poorly dubbed English. Made me want to view THE EDITOR again. They do a good job of re-creating that period feel of 1970s but there are a few things that I wish they had reconsidered like the bar / tavern that clearly is a modern brewpub and very anachronistic for the intent. I mean, there has to be some older bars / pubs in the city they shot this (I’m guessing it was a freebie location to use).

While I appreciate a movie that doesn’t overstay its welcome, this one is actually too short for what its attempting to accomplish. It’s less than 70 minutes w/o the credits. It’s listed as 90min on IMDb so I wonder if there is a longer cut that features more violence / sex b/c this version they broadcast on YT felt very sanitized, i.e. very PG13.

I’d like to watch this again if there is a longer cut and definitely view more films by these filmmakers.

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