The Body

The Body

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  • Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
  • Release Date: 2001-04-13
  • Runtime: 109 minutes
  • : 5.5
  • Production Company: Helkon Media
  • Production Country: United States of America, Israel, Germany
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5.5/10
5.5
From 215 Ratings

Description

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    “Mayka” (Belén Rueda) is a wealthy woman with a toy-boy chemist for an husband “Álex” (Hugo Silva) and it’s not really the happiest of arrangements. She regularly baits him and threatens him with a divorce that would render him poverty-stricken. Then, suddenly, she has an heart attack and ends up on a mortuary slab - but not for long. Before they can carry out an autopsy, she’s gone awol. Policeman “Jaime” (Jose Coronado) is suspicious of the husband and his potentially venal motives but with no body there is a distinct paucity of evidence. With a thunderstorm almost perpetually raging overhead, we spend most of the next two hours playing a clever game of cat and mouse where it’s not always clear which is which. We are drip fed clues, counter-clues and red herrings enthusiastically by auteur Oriol Paula to ensure we remain engagingly perplexed and equally suspicious throughout. Can it really be a simple as it all seems at first glance? The mystery is expertly sustained and unlike many others of this genre where the plot is predicable, this one really does have us guessing right until a denouement that has something of the Agatha Christie meets the “Sting” to it. The production uses the dark and wet environments effectively (nobody here ever seems to want to turn on the lights) and Coronado with his fastidiousness, Rueda with her obnoxiousness and Silva with his smugness all work well as the mix of real-time investigations and flashbacks help us to fill in some of the plentiful blanks abetted by some noxious science for good measure. This is a proper thriller.

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