El empleado nocturno / Lo que esconde la noche / The Night Clerk
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Espiar para aprender / Spy to learn
The Night Clerk is a film about a young hotel concierge with Asperger's syndrome who becomes a witness and then a suspect in a crime. The movie works better as a drama than a thriller, building on some accomplished intimate moments.
La película de Michael Cristofer (que remite a películas con espiones como La ventana indiscreta, Doble de cuerpo y Sliver) es una combinación de drama y thriller que funciona mejor como drama. El personaje de Bart está bien delineado, con su curiosa (y típica) combinación de ingenuidad, inteligencia y dificultad para la comunicación, con su consiguiente soledad. La película se toma sus tiempos para crear efectivos climas intimistas entre el protagonista y una nueva huésped, Andrea (femme fatal del relato a cargo de la versátil Ana de Armas) y delinear con pocos y efectivos trazos la relación entre Bart y su madre (una irreconocible e intensa Helen Hunt).
En cuanto al costado thriller, el relato va abriendo sus cartas,
pero ciertos elementos de intriga y su resolución resultan algo confusos y
acaso forzados.
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Bart, a young man with Asperger syndrome (Tye Sheridan),
works as a night shift concierge at a small hotel. He has surreptitiously set
up a camera system inside the rooms to spy and record the guests in order to
improve his particular ways of relating and talking to people. But in this way
he becomes a witness (and later a suspect) of a crime that he observes through
the cameras.
Michael Cristofer's film (which refers to spy movies like
Rear Window, Body Double, and Sliver) is a combination of drama and thriller
that works best as drama. Bart's character is well outlined, with his curious
(and typical) combination of naivety, intelligence, and communication
difficulties, with his consequent loneliness. The film takes its time to create
effective intimate climates between the protagonist and a new guest, Andrea
(femme fatal from the story by the versatile Ana de Armas) and to delineate
with few and effective strokes the relationship between Bart and his mother (a
unrecognizable and intense Helen Hunt).
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