2012 · thriller · mystery
The Body
Directed by Oriol Paulo1h 47m2012
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Our read: The Body (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- twisty
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