El método
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| Directed by | Marcelo Piñeyro |
| Produced by | Gerardo Herrero Francisco Ramos |
| Written by | Mateo Gil Marcelo Piñeyro Story: Jordi Galcerán |
| Starring | Eduardo Noriega Najwa Nimri Eduard Fernández Pablo Echarri Ernesto Alterio Natalia VerbekeNatalia Ozores Carmelo Gómez |
| Music by | Frédéric Bégin Phil Electric |
| Cinematography | Alfredo F. Mayo |
| Editing by | Iván Aledo |
| Release date(s) | Argentina: 2005 USA June 6, 2007 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country |  Argentina Spain Italy |
| Language | Spanish English French |
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El método is a Spanish, Argentine, and Italian thriller film released in 2005 and directed by Marcelo Piñeyro.[1]
It stars Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández, Pablo Echarri, Enrique Alterio, Natalia Verbeke, Adriana Ozores and Carmelo Gómez, as the only eight actors in the film.
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[edit] Plot
A mysterious corporation has a vacancy job in offer, and seven eager businessmen are called upon at the same time to be interviewed for the position. They are shown into a room by the firm's offbeat secretary (Natalia Verbeke), where they are informed that they shall all partake in a bizarre test known as the Grönholm Method. They are also told that one of the seven applicants is in fact the interviewer, who shall remain anonymous to the other six.
Throughout a series of uncanny questions, what-if scenarios and increasingly bizarre tests, the applicants are dismissed one by one. The tension increases as people begin to take matters personally, and things get carried out of hand as competition becomes sharper to win the position.
[edit] Themes
Nothing in this film is to be taken for granted. Even the slightest and (apparently) most obvious of details have two sides. The action takes place strictly in the interviewing room and the bathrooms annexed to it, with a few initial and final street and lobby scenes.
The claustrophobic setting of the movie helps build the tension in the room and makes the stakes seem absurdly higher as the world is reduced to a few square feet. Helping increase the tension is the reduced number of actors (eight) and their throroughly developed characters.
Throughout the movie there are multiple references to an ongoing riot down on the street, but the room is hermetically sealed and does not provide a street-view. The invisible riot serves as a metaphor to the ensuing struggle within the room and the characters.
At the very end of the film, as the last dismissed applicant walks away into the street and the battle for the possition is over, we are shown the consequences of the so far "invisible" riot: the character walks through the debris, echoing the struggle lost. In a final revelation, we're shown to a last scene that parallels the movie accordingly.
[edit] Cast
- Eduardo Noriega as Carlos
- Najwa Nimri as Nieves
- Eduard Fernández as Fernando
- Pablo Echarri as Ricardo
- Ernesto Alterio as Enrique
- Natalia Verbeke as Montse
- Adriana Ozores as Ana
- Carmelo Gómez as Julio
[edit] Awards
The film was nominated to five Goya Awards (Best Lead Actor (Fernández), Best New Actor (Echarri), Best Editing (Aledo), Best Screenplay (Gil and Piñeyro) and Best Supporting Actor (Gómez), winning in the last two categories. It also won in the Flanders International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Film in the Mar del Plata Film Festival.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ El Método at the Internet Movie Database
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