Haunted Heart (film)
2024 film
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Haunted Heart (Spanish: Isla perdida, lit. 'Lost Island'), also known as The Island, is a 2024 thriller film directed by Fernando Trueba, written by Trueba and Rylend Grant, and starring Matt Dillon and Aida Folch alongside Juan Pablo Urrego.
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- Fernando Trueba
- Rylend Grant
- Matt Dillon
- Aida Folch
- Juan Pablo Urrego
- Kika Georgiou
- Polydoros Vogiatzis
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| Directed by | Fernando Trueba |
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| Cinematography | Sergio Iván Castaño |
| Edited by | Marta Velasco |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
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| Distributed by | BTeam Pictures |
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| Language | English |
Plot
Set on a remote Greek island,[1] the plot involves Spanish woman Alex arriving to work in a seaside restaurant managed by American owner Max. Alex finds herself falling for her handsome, reserved boss and they begin a relationship. Their fling falters almost as soon as it starts, due to Alex's insecurities (she is on the rebound from a relationship with a married man) and Max's insistence on keeping his past private. Little by little, details of Max's dark and mysterious past start to emerge, a past that Max is determined to prevent Alex from discovering [2]
Cast
- Aida Folch as Alex[2]
- Matt Dillon as Max[2]
- Juan Pablo Urrego as Chico[2]
Production
The screenplay was written by Fernando Trueba and Rylend Grant.[1] Trueba said that he took inspiration from Patricia Highsmith's novels and Alfred Hitchcock's films.[3] He also said that if he had to classify the film, he would classify it under the "romantic suspense" label.[4] The film is a Fernando Trueba PC, Atlantika Films, and Caracol Inc. production, with the participation of RTVE, Ekome Greece, Caracol Inc., Deloitte Spain and Film Constellation, and support from ICAA and the Madrid regional administration.[1][3] Shooting locations included Greece.[2]
Release
Reception
Jonathan Holland of ScreenDaily deemed the film to be "always watchable but very conventional, never providing anything new or unexpected".[10]
Javier Ocaña of El País wrote that "the result does not live up to the concept", with the film starting off "bad", improving a lot with the romance [between the two lead characters], an uneveness arising again when thriller fully takes over.[11]
Santiago Alverú of Cinemanía rated the film 3½ stars, considering that eventually "it is Aida Folch who holds everything together".[12]
Catherine Bray of The Guardian rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing that Trueba "gets most of the ingredients right – exotic location, good-looking leads, a few different narrative reveals up its sleeve – but flubs the execution, leaving his cast floundering".[13]