The new Spanish film "Mirage" "burns the brain" of Chinese audiences

The sci-fi suspense film "Mirage", directed by Spanish emerging director Oriol Paul, received good word-of-mouth and box office after landing in Chinese theaters last Thursday: Douban scored as high as 7.8 points, nearly 70 million yuan in 3 days on the weekend, and could break through 100 million yuan this week.

Director Paul's last work, "The Invisible Guest", surprised many Chinese audiences two years ago (Douban 8.8 points, box office 170 million yuan), accumulating considerable popularity and expectations for this film. "Mirage" tells the story of a young mother who moves into a new home and has a cross-time connection with a boy 30 years ago, the boy died after witnessing a car accident in a murder case, and the heroine saves the boy but falls into the pain of the timeline being changed and the memory erased... The time-lapse dialogue and changing the timeline in the film are classic sci-fi elements, such as the Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar" and the Japanese super popular animation "Your Name". "" is all involved, but the Spanish director Paul grafted on the elements of crime and love this time, three timelines and two anti-transfer plot twists and turns. Compared to the "Mirage" at the box office of 800,000 euros in Spain at the end of last year, the reputation and box office of this work in the world are more remarkable, especially after the film was launched on the streaming platform Netflix on March 22, which received strong reactions from overseas audiences, and the rating on IMDb's professional film review website was also 7.5 points.

Compared with the strong Hollywood films and culturally prominent French and Japanese films, Spanish films are relatively unfamiliar to Chinese audiences, only a few masters such as Buñuel are known by senior fans in the early days, while the most famous Spanish director Almodóvar, although internationally renowned, has won awards in film festivals such as Cannes, but his works have never been officially released in Chinese theaters, and Adria Na Ugat, the star of "Mirage", is the heroine of Almodóvar's last work " Julietta " , which somewhat makes up for some regrets. Famous contemporary Spanish directors also include Carlos Shola ("Tango Crazy"), Biggs Luna ("Ham, Ham"), and Alejandro Amenabal ("Deep Sea") who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. For Chinese audiences, in recent years, through various channels, they have gradually learned about Spanish commercial films, especially thrillers such as "The Invisible Guest", which reflects the proficiency and heritage of Spanish filmmakers in this genre. (Dong Ming)