Spanish cinema has a perfect wardrobe in Eduardo Noriega. Eduardo is a guy who can do everything and for everything. A chameleon capable of dazzling and ultimately leading us to the dark side of whatever plot is presented to us. Because some of his best performances are found in a thriller genre where he fits perfectly with his haunting charm.
In the beginning, Eduardo pointed to a nascent stereotype of the Spanish-style gallant. Something that Iberian cinema was not very accustomed to from a more cartoonish, if not grotesque or surreal, celluloid imagery (thanks, Berlanga). And in the end cinema also succumbs to the image in these parts. Types like Mario casas Today they monopolize roles where frowning, pursing their lips and winking their eyes are the most notable interpretive virtues.
But Eduardo Noriega was something else. Because attractiveness does not have to be at odds with know-how. And our friend Eduardo was very clear about how to be a good actor and not perish in the attempt or in other tempting will-o'-the-wisps from his youthful beginnings. Today Noriega has a film career here and there between different countries and genres, between films, series or documentaries. An actor always to be taken into account.
Top 3 recommended films by Eduardo Noriega
The evil of others
AVAILABLE HERE:It's curious how a platform like Netflix, always in search of new features with which to calm the anxieties of its affiliates, ends up using old movies to win them over as well. The evil of others had been sleeping the sleep of the righteous for years after a premiere without much brilliance. But precisely these types of films that passed without glory are firm candidates for the top ten of the streaming networks.
Because, deep down, they are better constructed than many other scripts and adaptations driven by the rush of the tastes of today's frenetic viewers who need a premiere every night. And that is how so many of us have once again gone through the hoop of this film that has a lot of perfect suspense, with its unexpected twists and an aftertaste of fascinating transcendence.
I recently recommended it to a friend who also works in a hospital pain unit. The analogy between physical pain, pain of the soul, narcotics, healing from the hands of the doctor as someone capable of the miracle between suggestion and power... curious foothills that the movie embroiders like a fitting of the last puzzle piece.
The wolf
AVAILABLE HERE:Below was the lamb scared to go straight to the wolves' den. But I had to continue going through one more. The courage required between heroic overtones and simple detachment from life. No one like him to try to disarm a gang that sowed fear among national principles as extreme as the enemy they intended to combat in their twisted and outdated ideology... but that is another story.
The point is that Noriega is a good mole and brings us closer to unsuspected dilemmas.
Mikel Lejarza, alias "Lobo", was an agent of the Spanish secret services who managed to infiltrate ETA between 1973 and 1975. He caused the fall of some 150 activists and collaborators, including the most prominent members of the special commandos and the leadership. .
"Operation Wolf" dealt a blow to the terrorist organization at a time when its bloody attacks were becoming the perfect excuse for the most involutionist sectors of Franco's regime to try to block the establishment of democracy. The infiltrator was the greatest police insurance against ETA. When ETA discovered him, they sentenced him to death and plastered the Basque Country with posters with his photograph under the legend "Wanted." "The Wolf" then had to change his identity and face and disappear without a trace.
Open your eyes
AVAILABLE HERE:That Tom Cruise was in charge of destroying the script in its version made in the USA is something else. But this movie was something disruptive in Spain. With it, a suspense with a taste of science fiction emerged, and even with evocations of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. Everything mixed together to become a cult work and a reference for a transition in Spanish cinema towards new avant-garde movements where the ingenuity of the well-crafted script reached previously unimaginable levels.
César, an attractive young man who has inherited a great fortune from his parents, lives in a splendid house where he organizes luxurious parties. When one night he meets Sofía and falls in love with her, Nuria, her former lover, dies of jealousy. The next day, driving with César, she tries to commit suicide. When César wakes up in the hospital, he discovers that his face has been horribly disfigured.