THE NIGHT OF THE WILD BOAR

Speaking, 2016, 75 minutes, Colour.
Catalina Zahrii, Renzo Briceno, Fernando Kliche, Gaston Salgado.
Directed by Ramiro Tenorio.

This is quite a brief thriller, requiring the attention of the viewer, noting the different time eras the action.

A novelist is being interviewed about his works with a criticism that they capitalise on actual murders of young women. He is also our asked about the influence of the woman who is his partner. Then, it emerges that he himself has been murdered.

The main action of the film takes place in the village, the wife returning from her travels, making connections with the worker who runs her estate, suspicious of the man that he has hired, encountering the policeman from the past who is investigating the death of her husband. In the meantime, there is also an investigation concerning a dead woman.

The film relies on atmosphere and intrigue, the role of the woman and her stories, her writing, her influence on her husband – the uncovering of her motivations, the wilful ambitions of the policeman and his wanting to do a deal with the woman in writing up further stories and his getting the reputation as an author.

Offbeat, intriguing, but requiring attention to follow.

1. Brief Spanish melodrama?

2. The title, the explanation of the eating of the boar, the boar and what it ate, the consequences for humans?

3. The town, homes, countryside, farms? The scenery, the woods? The musical score?

4. The mystery, the town, the murders of the women, the novels and their descriptions? The interview with the author, the cross-examination, his being blamed for the murders? The question about his partner and her influence?

5. Claudia, the return to the town, her past, travels, writing? Her relationship with her boyfriend? The mystery of his death? His novels, people blaming him for the murders? Claudia, her personality, aloof, her relationship with Mario and his work for her? Is implying Sebastien, Sebastien chopping the wood, her wariness of him? Benno, the relationship with the past? His investigation?

6. The mysterious interactions of these characters? Suspicion of Sebastien, his house, all the details of the novels, the revelation about the death, his wanting vengeance? His death?

7. Mario, life in the town, subservient to Claudia, the revelation about his doing what she asked? His being wounded, death?

8. Benno, dissatisfied, the investigation, suspicions, the past with Claudia, the confrontations?

9. The revelation of the truth, Claudia and the murders, her hold over her boyfriend, his writing the books? Benno and his wanting to be an author, wanting her to commit the crimes and writing them up, his being a celebrated author?

10. The atmosphere, the complexity of the plot and characters, the final revelation?