Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 06 Mar 2020
• Country: Spain
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8393332/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twin_murders_the_silence_of_the_white_city
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Spanish
• MPA Rating: TV-MA
• Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 110 min
• Writer: Roger Danès, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Alfred Pérez Fargas
• Director: Daniel Calparsoro
• Cast: Belén Rueda, Javier Rey, Aura Garrido
• Keywords: based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, basque country, spain, serial killer, co-workers relationship, twins,

	5.4/10
	40% – Critics
	20% – Audience

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City Storyline

July 2019. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country (north to Spain). Unai López de Ayala is a member of the Ertzaina (Basque Country’s police) expert in criminal profiles who returns to the service after an administrative discharge due to the recent death of his pregnant wife in a car crash happened a year ago. His arrival to the commissary matches with the apparition of a pair of corpses whose criminal firm is the same of Tasio Ortiz de Zarate, a former TV host of a mystery show named “Telúrico” who was arrested by a serial of identical crimes 20 years ago that always claimed his innocence. Working with his partner Estíbaliz Ruiz de Gauna, a young woman with a trouble of drugs addiction after her brother, herbalist Eneko, Unai meets the newcomer deputy chief Alba Díaz de Salvatierra, who helps him as confident and friend when they both do night running by the city, feeling attracted each other to despise Estíbaliz and despite Alba is a married woman with journalist Mario Santos. Dividing his time between the job and his family life with his aging grandfather, his dwarf younger brother Germán and Germán’s girlfriend Martina, the investigation forces Unai and Estíbaliz to interview Tasio in the jail as well as his twin brother and businessman Ignacio looking for new clues while new victims appear in the most important places of Vitoria as a personal challenge for Unai, after the killer writes him anonymously in an Internet’s web. Trying to catch him, Unai and Estíbaliz investigate the past of the victims and the twins not knowing that the killer is the own Mario, a man with a dark secret of the past that silently moves by the city and between the police to mislead the investigation, ready and determined to fulfill his plan until the last consequences no matter who die in the way.—Chockys

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Confusing

While the main plot is fairly easy to follow, there are too many tangents and unresolved questions. The storyline jumps around and introduces side plots that are left unexplained and only muddy the central story. The acting was good and the English dubbing worked well enough. But just too darn confusing.

Mediocre thriller from an usually good director

I never read the White City trilogy but perhaps I should because this movie is so disappointing that is unbelievable is based on a very successful book series. Daniel Calparsoro has made a some interesting movies and some confusing like The Warning / El aviso or some too ambitious like Combustion.; but never a mess like this.

Starting with the acting that is basically poor. Belen Rueda and Aura Garrido are with underwritten characters. Javier Rey is unconvincing as traumatized cop (and less as a sexual object); Alex Brendemühl makes an effort (and fails short) on his Hannibal Lecter moment. Only Manolo Solo as the killer is able to be menacing and convincing.

The script is full of cliches (the Lecter moments, suspended cops, old traumas, etc) plus there are many characters doing nothing. Perhaps the editing cut a huge part of the complete story. We might never know.

In brief; a bland copycat of many better thrillers that on gets confusing for moments and make no sense in others. Do not lose your time

Why? Just why?

35 minutes into the film the audience is told who the serial killer is. And I mean us, the viewers, not through the main character or the investigation, only us, we’re told for no reason, no purpose, and no benefit. Unbelievable.

After that, the film doesn’t get any better. The characters are poorly developed, a lot of things are left open and/or unexplained and it is obvious the whole time that you’re viewing a (bad) book adaptation.