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Alvaro Morte (Money Heist) and Veronica Echegui (Yo soy la Juani) star in this disturbing thriller in which an employee of a dark 'lost and found' office enters the dark underworld of human trafficking, organized mafias and illegal adoptions. One day he receives a strange suitcase with terrible contents inside. Mario decides to investigate on his own. Following the trail of the suitcase and helped by police woman Helena (Verónica Echegui) he comes across Sara (Eugenia China Suárez), a young woman trapped since she was a child in a human trafficking organization. A network that treats people as if they were... objects. How far would you go for something lost?

¨Lost and Found¨ is a complex and twisted story directed by Jorge Dorado (El embarcadero) dealing with a sinister and eerie investigation leads a deranged man to a dangerous prostitution and trafficking ring. Jorge Dorado's brain-twisting thriller , from the beginning, the film keeps the audience interested, hooking you immediately with a strong start. The film contains tension , thriller , drama , mystery and plot twists , including decent suspense with tense sequences especially in its final part, in a unexpected denouement, near of the end. Acceptable thriller in which nothing is the way it seems , the atmosphere is already tense and the twists and turns are the best part of this movie . Indeed, the starting point of the feature film is really strange with the discovery of a suitcase that contains a baby's belongings, but also his little corpse. While the police decide to close the case very quickly, the man who is in charge of the lost and found - interpreted with just the right amount of darkness in his eyes by the Professor of La casa de papel Álvaro Morte - seeks to know the truth about this little being forgotten by all. The atmosphere of this first part is as dark as it should be and offers an investigation with multiple ramifications. Unfortunately for the viewer, the mystery is very quickly solved by the improvised investigator and the film then slides into the denunciation of the prostitution systems of the great luxury hotels. The film evokes all forms of reification of the human being by people motivated solely by the lure of profit, but the heaviness of the subject really spoils the viewer's pleasure.

The cast is pretty well, stars Alvaro Morte, he gives a good performance as Mario, a man with a dark past who long ago decided to stay away from people until one day he receives a suitcase with human remains in his lost and found office, along with the beautiful China Suárez and the always adequate Verónica Echegui and other secondaries in minor roles as Daniel Aráoz, Andy Gorostiaga, Maitane San Nicolás, Zorion Eguileor.

Directed without much originality like everything we can now watch on television, ¨Objetos¨ never justifies at all its presence on the big screen by any formal mastery. Even the actors, most of whom have worked a lot on the small screen, seem to be not very concerned by what they are playing. The director states that the title of the film is about the fact of "trading in objects or trading in people as if they were objects", a play on words in which the spectator is introduced as the story acquires a suffocating suspense.

¨Objetos¨ was uneven but professionally directed by Jorge Dorado. He's a good craftsman who has shot decent films and TV series,such as: Mindscape, Gigantes, El Ministerio del Tiempo, The head, Feria: La luz más oscura, El embarcadero (The Pier), among others. Objetos (Lost and found) , rating: 6/10.

A protogonist who working in a lost and found department...one day he find the red color suitcase and inside a baby's bone there.. Then he starts to investigate about that and find the killer... One time watchable movie.!!

A protogonist who working in a lost and found department...one day he find the red color suitcase and inside a baby's bone there.. Then he starts to investigate about that and find the killer... One time watchable movie.!!

A protogonist who working in a lost and found department...one day he find the red color suitcase and inside a baby's bone there.. Then he starts to investigate about that and find the killer... One time watchable movie.!!

This is a good try, given the usual low quality of Spanish productions. But, it is still a really bad movie. A thriller with elements of classic noir, the story is plagued by the bad acting of main cast, and a dense and false drama, presumptuous and full of clichés. The worst is the complete lack of consistency, absurdities and unbelievable situations and behaviors of the main parts, which constantly break the suspension of disbelief. As usual in Spanish movies, the depiction of police work is ludicrous and unrealistic.

The best part, the Chinese guys in the very first minutes. The other actors are, simply, not good, plain and without life, lacking chemistry among them, character development, or ability to create empathy with the viewer. Maybe the problem is that they tried to present people, situations and dialogues that are culturally so far from Spanish culture. Perhaps, on the script in paper, it works; but, when filmed, just doesn't work. I guess that a Hollywood remake, solving the holes and inconsistencies, would work as a routinary, but nice thriller.

Overall, a bad, boring, slow, and stupid movie. To avoid.

No pun intended - and I actually have not seen the tv show the main actor here is famously in (Casa de Papal or something like that) - I do have it on my watchlist and I did meet him briefly at a convention. Cool and fun Dude as you may imagine.

His character here is not so cool - as in quite driven by his emotions. Understandable to a degree - again since I have not seen the show, I have no idea if this is a stretch when it comes to his acting chops or more of the same. I can only say that he is really doing everything he can to elevate the movie - I would argue he is not able to, especially because this is by the numbers (which would be something a professor would love I reckon) ... is that enough thrill(er) for you?

Lost and found , in all its forms, from birth to death, a secluded little spanish dramathriller, about a man that works in the citys department of lost and found items, a real nerdy job searching for the lost items owners, an obsesiveness occurs when a skelleton of a baby is found in a red suitcase drawn out of the river.

A well made, highly spano-european filmstyle, with its archtypical spanish male figurine, a well written crimestory of highly realistic issues, a human trafficking tale that happens everywhere in the world cloaked under the name of ''adoption''

but its also a desperate human lovestory, that takes risky turns from the start. The production design, the location layout , the multitude of weird lost gadgets, the musical score and some exclusively made filmatographic tricks makes this , along with a decently acting cast, a hidden gem of spanish language film.

There is something magic about the light and a feeling of a misty cold in the dark that i cannot explain, therefore have a look yourself, a recommend from the grumpy old man.