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Secuestro Express

Country: Venezuela, Language: Spanish, 86 mins

  • Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
  • Writer: Jonathan Jakubowicz
  • Producer: Elizabeth Avellan; Sandra Condito

CGiii Comment

Venezuela's top grossing movie (beating Titanic).

It is not a particularly well-made film...excessive gimmicky camera work, there is one instance of sublime imagery.

The Venezuelan government should be ashamed.

It is simply a film that will make you despise mankind and Venezuela - oops.

If this film has done anything to change the situation then it’s a great film – if not, then Jakubowitz’ hard-hitting moralising has fallen on deaf ears.

Powerful and difficult - especially as there is no resolution - a mistake? Or, inspired?

Maybe, maybe not.

Memorable.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In a night pregnant with a strange mix of tension and dizzy abandon, lovers Carla and Martin prowl clubs before drunkenly wandering back to his car. While he comes across as crass nouveau riche, she appears more liberal. Their conspicuous affluence, however, makes them ideal targets for kidnappers, and the trio of Trece, Budu and Niga gets a bead on them and promptly sweeps them up at gunpoint. The kidnappers then demand $20,000 to be delivered in two hours. Carla phones her rich father Sergio to procure the money, but chaos soon ensues. A botched ATM robbery is followed by a stopover at the palatial estate of a gay drug dealer.

Cast & Characters

Mia Maestro as Carla;
Ruben Blades as Carla's Father;
Carlos Julio Molina as Trece;
Pedro Perez as Budu;
Carlos Madera as Niga Sibilino;
Jean Paul Leroux as Martin;
Dalila Colombo;
Elba Escobar as Drugstore Cashier;
Dimas Gonzalez as Guardia;