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This is the story of Sam, a man who has a talent for stealing 'good luck' from other people.

Product Identifiers

EAN5060049140650

eBay Product ID (ePID)3959253

Product Key Features

ActorEusebio Poncela, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Monica Lopez

Film/TV TitleIntacto

DirectorJuan Carlos Fresnadillo

LanguageEnglish\Spanish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time104 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles

GenreThriller, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureSpain

ComposerLucio Godoy

ReviewsChicago Sun-Times - ...[With] ingenious construction..., Box Office - ...Xavier Jimenez's cinematography fits the film's tenebrous tone and there's some particularly accomplished art direction from Cesar Macarron..., Total Film - ...Superior....[A] mind-warping, inventive thriller....Technically assured....Original..., Los Angeles Times - ...Wonderfully spooky...a sharp brainteaser of a film, a compelling mind game you compulsively play along with....Smart and carefully worked out..., Entertainment Weekly - ...INTACTO noodles around big, vague ideas, then stirs them into a baroque swirl of imagery linked in its very Spanish decorative style to such striking Iberian whoppers as LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE and OPEN YOUR EYES..., Sight and Sound - ...Intriguing....The story is unusually persuasive, dovetailing a complex set of characters and their various numbed situation...

Additional InformationINTACTO, from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, follows a group of people who have "the gift" of being extremely lucky and they play into a suspenseful world of gambling and superstition. The film begins and ends in the Canary Islands, where ringleader Sam (Max von Sydow), a Holocaust survivor, runs a casino. His right-hand man Federico (Eusebio Poncela) is stripped of "the gift" in a terrifying exchange that Federico sees as worse than death: Sam hugs him and in doing so steals his luck away. Desperate for revenge, Federico latches onto Tomas (Leonard Sbaraglia), the miraculous sole survivor of an airplane crash. He convinces Tomas to test his luck in various games (one involves running full-speed, blindfolded, through a heavily wooded forest to see if he is "lucky" enough to avoid running into a tree.) By training Tomas to be a winner, Federico hopes to eventually have him challenge Sam. Thrown into the complicated mix are an untouchable bullfighter (Antonio Dechent), and a car accident survivor (Monica Lopez) who want to break up this obsessive gambling ring.<BR>INTACTO uses its stirring orchestral score by Lucio Godoy, its puzzling plotline, its bleak desert settings, and its fast-moving nighttime driving scenes to create a mood of mystery and intrigue.

Executive ProducerEnrique Lopez Lavigne, Fernando Bovaira

ScreenwriterJuan Carlos Fresnadillo

Movie/TV TitleIntacto

Director of PhotographyXavier Jimenez

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, moderate violence and menace