Arquivo / 49ª mostra

Globalization of violence or violence of the globalization? Serial killers or social killers? A mine in Brazil, several killings in New York, others in Miami, what is the relationship between them? El Cobrador is an invitation to seek an answer to these questions. Rubem Fonseca was probably the author who best wrote about contemporary, aggressive, convulsive violence. The film includes his short stories - spread about in books and at different times - and adapts them to a single story in which all are related, although they maintain their own identity. Characters dispersed in space, strangers among themselves, they are eventually part of a single web, a single thriller, where the identity of the assassin is not important - for they all are - in that they are imprisoned within the same context, a system that conditions and annihilates them. Co-produced by Agustín Almodóvar, who also made The Secret Life of Words, attraction for the 30th Mostra, this film includes a rare soundtrack by Tom Zé, the focus of a documentary Fabricating Tom Zé, also selected for the 30th Mostra.