(Hernández 1999) Lisboa [Lisbon]

A well-craft­ed sus­pense film employ­ing some of the for­mu­las of Hitch­cock. Despite the title, it’s a Span­ish film. The main char­ac­ter is a Por­tuguese video dis­trib­u­tor, on a car trip from Spain, going home. He picks up a mys­te­ri­ous woman, and gets tan­gled in a web of mur­der. Well-trod­den mate­r­i­al, but direc­tor Her­nan­dez han­dles it well, and the odd­ly low-key end­ing is original.

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