{"id":22320,"date":"2016-09-16T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:13:58","slug":"white-coffin-2016-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/white-coffin-2016-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"White Coffin (2016) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"white-coffin\"<\/a>Virginia and her daughter Rebeca have left behind husband and father respectively.\u00a0 When Rebeca is kidnapped, Virginia must play a disturbing and violent game to get her back.\u00a0 She must see how far she is ready to go to save her daughter. Written by Adrian Garcia Bogliano and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano, the film is directed by Daniel de la Vega.\u00a0 Together, they create more of a thriller with horror elements than a flat out horror film.<\/p>\n

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However, no matter the genre it falls under, it works.\u00a0 The character of Virginia is made to be a strong mother who has to get even stronger to save her child.\u00a0 Her relationship with her child works on screen but a mistake early in the story shows that some leaps of faith are necessary to truly enjoy the story.\u00a0 Once the big one of these leaps is passed, everything works within the film\u2019s world.\u00a0 Besides the smaller issues, the film builds good tension and the chase scenes are solid.\u00a0 The enigma behind why Rebeca , and others, was taken is satisfying while its conclusion should surprise a few.<\/p>\n

Lead actress Julieta Cardinali as Virginia shows strength and the power of a mother when faced with the task of saving her child.\u00a0 She shows this through many silent scenes, her capacity to bring emotions though without words is commendable.\u00a0 Playing the mysterious man who helps Virginia, Mason, actor Rafael Ferro brings multiple layers to his character making difficult to tell if the character is good or bad or somewhere in the middle, the way he delivers some of his lines so matter-of-fact-ly shows a great control of his craft.\u00a0 Playing Rebeca, the kidnapped daughter, is child actress Fiorela Duranda who shows great promise as she shows as much talent and know-how as the adults around her.\u00a0 The child\u2019s performance adds a gut-punch to some of her scenes.<\/p>\n

The film is an Argentinian production and it shows the countryside beautifully with a very grey, fall-like weather throughout.\u00a0 The cinematography by Alejandro Giuliani is a bit dark, very grey, while looking beautiful.\u00a0 The way he frames the car chase, the mom in her battle to save her child, and once crucial scene that will break your heart is both perfectly connected to the material and restrained when needed.\u00a0 His work adds a lot to the film.<\/p>\n

White Coffin is a powerful story of how far a mother will go to save her child, how she will deal with everything that is thrown at her.\u00a0 It\u2019s an emotional ride with good tension, very good acting, and ok special effects.\u00a0 The ending is surprising a bit and yet it makes sense with the rest of the movie and some of the clues, whether noticed or not on first watch, peppered throughout the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia and her daughter Rebeca have left behind husband and father respectively.\u00a0 When Rebeca is kidnapped, Virginia must play a disturbing and violent game to get her back.\u00a0 She must see how far she is ready to go to save her daughter. Written by Adrian Garcia Bogliano and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano, the film is directed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,367,477,1087,1170],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-thriller","tag-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}