Incautos

<i>Swindled</i> (film)

Swindled (film)

2004 film


Swindled or Taken In (Spanish: Incautos) is a 2004 Spanish-French thriller film directed by Miguel Bardem which stars Ernesto Alterio, Victoria Abril, and Federico Luppi.

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Plot

After a time learning the ropes with aging Manco, swindler Ernesto ends up teaming up with alpha conman Federico. Federico's former lover Pilar persuades the former to pull a large-scale scam.[1][2]

Cast

Production

The screenplay was written by Carlos Martín and Miguel Bardem. A Spanish-French co-production, the film was produced by Alquimia Cinema and Mandarin Films in association with Telemadrid, Canal 9, Canal+, and TVE.[2] Shooting locations included Madrid,[5] and the province of Segovia.[6]

Release

The film was presented in the official selection of the 7th Málaga Film Festival in April 2004.[7] Distributed by Hispano Foxfilm,[2] it was theatrically released in Spain on 9 July 2004.[3]

Reception

Todd Brown of ScreenAnarchy pointed out that even if the film would have benefited from giving the characters "a little [more] time to pause and breathe", "it is nonetheless an entertaining caper film, one in which nothing is ever quite as it seems".[8]

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the "effective but inelegant grifters" film to be as "hyperactive, ostentatious and hollow as the characters it describes", and unable to hold after its first hour.[2]

Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be "an entertaining device to narrate an already-seen story, but to which Bardem's narrative pulse gives a good rhythm", otherwise singling out a "splendid" Victoria Abril as the film's standout.[1]

Accolades

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See also


References

  1. Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "Incautos". Fotogramas.
  2. Holland, Jonathan (20 June 2004). "Taken In". Variety.
  3. "Incautos". elmundo.es. January 2005. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  4. Silva Romero, Ricardo (4 May 2007). "Incautos". Semana.
  5. Marcos Ramos, María (2020). "Castilla y León, un escenario de cine". Filmhistoria. 30 (1). Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona: 27. ISSN 2014-668X.
  6. Brown, Todd (29 January 2006). "Incautos (Swindled) Review". ScreenAnarchy.

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