''Perdida'' (Spanish: ''Missing'') is a 2018 internationally co-produced

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film directed by Alejandro Montiel. It is based on Argentinian journalist Florencia Etcheves’s novel ''Cornelia''.

Plot

Fourteen years ago, during a study trip, a teenage girl, Cornelia Villalba (

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) ran away with her companions to go dancing and got lost in the middle of the Patagonian forests, and she is never heard from again. At present, Manuela Pelari (

Luisana Lopilato Luisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre (born 18 May 1987) is an Argentine actress, model and former singer. She was a member of the pop-rock band Erreway from 2002 to 2004. Early life Lopilato was born to Eduardo Lopilato and Beatriz de la Tor ...

) her best friend, decides to use her police tools to undertake a new search. Driven by disrespect and a compelling need to end years of silence and broken ties, she is faced with a power that threatens to turn her into one more piece of a cog that could cost her her life. A commissioner who acts as a father, a ruthless murderer and a Spanish woman as beautiful as it is dangerous, a girl raised outside the law and a colleague who tries to indoctrinate a Pipa mistress of disobedience, are the characters that surround a search that does not give respite.

Cast

as Manuela "Pipa" Pelari *

as Cornelia Villalba/Nadine Basset/Sirena *

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as Martín Seretti *

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as Alina Zambrano * Julián Serrano as Young Ariel *

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as Oreyana * Mara Alberto as Clara Villalba *

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as Dr. Claudia Marini * Laura Laprida as Leonora * Arancha Martí as Lucrecia * Marina Garré as Micaela * Benjamín Otero as Rodrigo * Carlos Alcántara Vilar as Adalberto * Juan Ignacio Cane as Ariel * Mora Magnarelli as Young Cornelia * Micaela Kastan as Young Leonora * Sol Wainer as Young Mariana *

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as Egipcio * Carlos del Río as Sacristan * Angelina Napoli * Nicolás Torres * Ramón Oreyana

Production

The director Alejandro Montiel after working as creative director, he together with Mili Roque Pitt looked for a film to direct in a different genre that is not comedy, as Montiel likes the police, he read the book and decided to adapt it for a movie.

Casting

for the role had to practice martial arts and learn to use a revolver with the help of a policeman. The film was the cinematographic debut of

and Julián Serrano.

Shooting

The film began on October 2, 2017 in natural settings in Argentina and Spain.

Prequel

Reception

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, the film has an aggregate score of 20% based on 1 positive and 4 negative critic reviews.

References

External links

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