{"id":86890,"date":"2022-09-03T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/jaula-2022-review-alex-de-la-iglesia-presents-a-murky-psychological-thriller-full-of-intrigue-twists-and-terror-that-burns-like-an-airport-novel\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:23:01","slug":"jaula-2022-review-alex-de-la-iglesia-presents-a-murky-psychological-thriller-full-of-intrigue-twists-and-terror-that-burns-like-an-airport-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/jaula-2022-review-alex-de-la-iglesia-presents-a-murky-psychological-thriller-full-of-intrigue-twists-and-terror-that-burns-like-an-airport-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaula (2022) review: \u00c1lex de la Iglesia presents a murky psychological thriller full of intrigue, twists and terror that burns like an airport novel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Jaula’, the first feature film by Ignacio Tatay, opens on September 9 with a cast led by Elena Anaya and is produced by Pokeepsie Films, the production company of \u00c1lex de la Iglesia and Caroline Bang<\/strong>a mysterious proposal that borders on terror and has its greatest asset in the intrigue that its starting point poses, one of those movies that the less you know about it, the better<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Paula (Elena Anaya<\/strong>) and her husband (Paul Miller<\/strong>) return by car from a dinner and suddenly, they run into a girl (Eva Tenner<\/strong>) wandering alone on the road. Two weeks later, after finding out that no one wants her, they decide to accept her at home temporarily to help her and turn their life as a couple around, but it won’t be easy, since the girl lives obsessed with the idea that if she leaves a square of chalk painted on the ground something terrible is going to happen to him.<\/p>\n

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Paula will begin a journey through dark paths to try to discover the enigma of the girl’s past, with whom she has managed to establish an emotional bond. That is the principle of ‘Cage’, which adds various meanders and cryptic elements in the development of its plot, in such a way that the viewer who has not seen the trailer or heard about it you may think it belongs to very different genres<\/strong> and that at some point it will come out for an unexpected solution.<\/p>\n

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Tatay knows very well how to unfold a carpet of possibilities and enigmas that lead one to think that there is something much more complex behind what it seems, and to a certain extent it works that way, although not as one might imagine. It is very difficult to talk about what we can find in its 106 minutes without gutting it<\/strong>but if there is something that each and every one of them do well, it is to maintain that sensation of possibilities, of opening up to endless paths that they could go through.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, in this type of case, the route it ends up taking is not the most unthinkable or satisfactory, but the truth is that the script achieves what it wants, and it would be a mistake to underestimate its ability to maintain suspense and ambiguity. We can think that the film is about a malevolent girl, about a sinister invisible sect, an alien abduction, the paranoia of a frustrated woman who thinks she sees things… all possibilities are open at some point<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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