There are perfect actors for different genres. Luis Tosar and suspense in its broadest sense is one of the happiest encounters in Spanish cinematography. And this Galician actor can embody evil in any of his representations; or on the opposite side, facing the most ominous as the most worthy everyday hero. Always with that feeling of wounded characters, burdened with guilt, peering into abysses or facing particular demons...
The physical helps, of course. Because his appearance invites tagged linked to that dark spot. But beyond first impressions, Tosar stands out greatly in knowing how to take any interpretation that comes before him to the extreme.
Beyond general recognition and popularity baths that in his case surely reached their peak with Celda 211, a good actor like him has already been taught for a long time. An acting career full of successes that cannot be due but to that ability to make each and every one of the characters played their own. Because it is not easy to convince ourselves in each new film that he is no longer the previous character. And Tosar achieves it from the first scene.
Top 3 recommended movies of Luis Tosar
As you sleep
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:This movie freaked me out with a touch of the most disturbing Hitchcock. An ingenious production in which it is discovered that with little more talent is needed to address a plot made permanent tension. Of course, counting on the disturbing performance of Tosar the matter seems easier.
He is César, a "friendly" doorman who goes out of his way for the inhabitants of the community in which he provides his services. Of course, his performance is highly questionable by the manager of the company that provides such services. One more edge that obscures César's personality to unsuspected limits.
At times his relationship with the grandmother who lives in one of the apartments can even arouse a certain amount of comedy. Because the poor thing, with her kind spirit, little can imagine the monster that houses Caesar...
But focusing on the essence of the film, his relationship with Clara soon points to a sick obsession, animosity and frustration. Because Caesar sees in her something like her impossible happiness. He surely wanted to woo her, although he never expresses this extreme. But what he ultimately does is meddle in his life to truly insane limits.
Good Clara can't suspect what César is up to. And the spectator is speechless with the perverse plan that César is executing. In the end, how could it be otherwise, everything points to a fatal outcome. The point is that it is even much worse than we could imagine...
Who kills iron
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:There is some poetic justice to discover in the plot. Mario is a kind-hearted nurse who goes out of his way for the patients at the clinic where he works. He is expecting his first child and his relationship with his partner proceeds normally, in that peaceful prelude to fatherhood.
Until a very special resident arrives at the hospital. He is the patriarch of a drug family. The same one that for many years he could be responsible for the deaths of so many young people exposed to drug addiction. And of course, Mario offers certain reluctance to provide his service for such an infamous character.
Only the gangster's children are way above the old man. Because they hope to expand the drug business from it, bypassing its guidelines and standards ultimately established in the face of passivity for new instructions.
The "poor" man loses faculties as the film progresses. And it is that Mario may not be giving him the best care. Something disturbing arises in this relationship between patient and nurse. Mario gradually darkens, as if sinking into remote storms. Even his pregnant wife notes in him that character suddenly submerged as in the old mists of the Galician coast.
Nothing can come out of that relationship between both characters well. The boss and the nurse. The echoes of revenge point to fatal outcomes. In the end, the feeling that violence only brings more violence and that justice is sometimes too elusive of itself to punish in time those who should have been punished.
Quick 211
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:I also discovered Luis Tosar with this interpretation that, even after his great success with the general critics with "Te doy mis ojos", meant that greater scope as an entertainment film. Neither better nor worse, I simply say that it had a greater reach among movie fans in general.
And it is that the imprisonment in the prison where Luis Tosar makes the unforgettable "Malamadre" brings us closer to a world of prisons turned into hell since a riot that even connects with the most patriotic particularities of the ETA prisoners.
A development of maximum tension where Malamadre (Tosar) shares the leading role with Juan (played by Alberto Ammann). Juan plays both sides pretending to be another prisoner when he really is an official lost in the middle of the conflict.
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