Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) has been working as a nurse in an intensive care unit (ICU) for twenty years. He is a responsible person who likes his work and devoted to his patients. But he is also the one who sometimes, faced with the irremediable, makes controversial decisions.
After entering the unit Gabriel (Ignacio Rogers, from Esteros), a new, friendly and eager to learn nurse, the changing relationship between the two nurses will dominate the development of the film.
What begins as a hospitable drama, slides towards the thriller with a touch of terror as the relationship between the two protagonists becomes rare.
The painting of the ICU ward and the hospital dynamics is very successful, with its gloomy atmosphere and its limited gallery of patients. Portaluppi composes his lonely character very well, who is destabilized by a whole scenario of years, both at work and personally.
Notable is the work of Rogers, a specialist in multi-layered characters. As for the veteran cast of hospital managers, the generational difference with the protagonists is noticeable in their way of acting.
Director Martin Kraut very well doses the gradual change in atmosphere (and genre) of this his debut feature, perhaps revealing influences from Polanski's cinema in its presentation of oppressive and paranoid elements.
In short, a solvent debut in thriller format with very good leading performances on a controversial subject as a trigger, with the merit of never losing sight of the personal drama of its protagonist, a fundamental foundation of any genre film.
After entering the unit Gabriel (Ignacio Rogers, from Esteros), a new, friendly and eager to learn nurse, the changing relationship between the two nurses will dominate the development of the film.
What begins as a hospitable drama, slides towards the thriller with a touch of terror as the relationship between the two protagonists becomes rare.
The painting of the ICU ward and the hospital dynamics is very successful, with its gloomy atmosphere and its limited gallery of patients. Portaluppi composes his lonely character very well, who is destabilized by a whole scenario of years, both at work and personally.
Notable is the work of Rogers, a specialist in multi-layered characters. As for the veteran cast of hospital managers, the generational difference with the protagonists is noticeable in their way of acting.
Director Martin Kraut very well doses the gradual change in atmosphere (and genre) of this his debut feature, perhaps revealing influences from Polanski's cinema in its presentation of oppressive and paranoid elements.
In short, a solvent debut in thriller format with very good leading performances on a controversial subject as a trigger, with the merit of never losing sight of the personal drama of its protagonist, a fundamental foundation of any genre film.