Crónicas (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Sebastián Cordero

Guionista:

Sebastián Cordero (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

6 octubre 2005 (Netherlands)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

If It's On TV, It Must Be The Truth.

Plot:

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Ecuador | Psychopath | Florida | Prison

Premios:

8 wins & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Tough Look at the Responsibilities of Tabloid Journalism

Reparto

Damián Alcázar	...	Vinicio Cepeda
Walter Layana	...	Vendedor 'Extras'
Henry Layana	...	Don Lucho
Tamara Navas	...	Doña Etelvina
Washington Garzón	...	Joseph Juan
Rosa Alina Ortiz	...	Amiga Don Lucho
José María Yazpik	...	Iván Suárez
Raymundo Zambrano	...	Cura
John Leguizamo	...	Manolo Bonilla
Leonor Watling	...	Marisa Iturralde
Alfredo Martínez	...	Amigo Don Lucho
Camilo Luzuriaga	...	Capitán Bolivar Rojas
Peki Andino	...	Sargento Saltos (as Peky Andino)
Pablo Maldonado	...	Hombre Enfurecido 1
Luiggi Pulla	...	Robert
Manolo Sarmiento	...	Maestro
Carlos Cedeño	...	Hombre Enfurecido 2
Gloria Leiton	...	Esperanza
Joyce Macías Figueroa	...	Bebé Esperanza
Naidelín Macías Figueroa	...	Bebé Esperanza
Adrián Layana	...	Joven Violento
Ricardo Paul Gonzalez	...	Policía Mina
Azucena Mora	...	Mujer Enfurecida
Alfred Molina	...	Victor Hugo Puente
Andrés Crespo	...	Preso Medio Gramo
Hugo Idrovo	...	Lic. Orestes Zambrano
Andrés Meza	...	Guía Carcel
Amira Bustamante	...	Señorita Autógrafo
Boris Valverde	...	Médico Forense
Gabriel Paredes	...	Policía Patlo de Autos
Víctor Feratio Jiménez	...	Roger
Susana Díaz Nieto	...	Secretaria Sociedad Biblica
Lic. Diego Oquendo	...	Presentador Noticiero
Doris Muñiz	...	Señora Teléfono Público
Elena Del Rocío Murillo	...	Partera
Jaime Estrada	...	Señor Limpieza
Fabiola Villanueva	...	Señora Foto
José Adolfo Ramos	...	Niño Foto
Patricia Higuera	...	Reportera
Nancy Tamayo	...	Azafata

Dirigida por
Sebastián Cordero

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Sebastián Cordero		writer

Producida por
Alfonso Cuarón	....	producer
Isabel Dávalos	....	producer
Carolina Fox	....	line producer
Bertha Navarro	....	producer
Lisandra Rivera	....	line producer
Guillermo del Toro	....	producer
Frida Torresblanco	....	executive producer
Jorge Vergara	....	producer

Música original por
Antonio Pinto

Fotografía por
Enrique Chediak

Montaje por
Luis Carballar
Iván Mora Manzano

Casting
Mauricio Samaniego

Diseño de producción por
Eugenio Caballero

Dirección artística
Roberto Frisone
James David Goldmark

Decorados
Barbara Enriquez		(decorator)

Diseño de vestuario por
Monica Ruiz-Ziegler

Departamento de maquillaje
Lucy Da Silva	....	makeup artist
Regina Reyes	....	key makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Paola Herrera	....	assistant production manager
Karla Moles	....	executive in charge of production

Ayudante de dirección
Tania Hermida	....	second assistant director
Claudio Reiter	....	first assistant director
Mauricio Samaniego	....	second assistant director
Felipe Teran	....	first assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Alfredo Mora Manzano	....	art department coordinator

Departamento de sonido
Jaime Baksht	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sergio Diaz	....	first assistant sound editor
Martín Hernández	....	sound designer
Martín Hernández	....	supervising sound editor
Pedro Mejía	....	boom operator
Santiago Núñez	....	sound mixer
Alejandro Quevedo	....	sound editor

Visual Effects
Motassem Younes	....	digital opticals

Especialistas
Julian Bucio	....	stunt coordinator

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Mauricio Cadena	....	video assist
Aurelia Winborn	....	assistant camera

Departamento de vestuario
Natalie Arango	....	assistant costume designer

Departamento de Edición
Joe Fineman	....	post-production consultant
Chris Wallace	....	colorist: HDTV

Departamento de Música
Gui Amabis	....	additional music crew
Gui Amabis	....	music programmer
Rica Amabis	....	music mixer
Rica Amabis	....	score mixer
Annette Fradera	....	music supervisor
Tejo	....	music mixer
Tejo	....	score mixer

Otros miembros del equipo
Frederik Bois	....	title designer
Gabriela Calvache	....	production coordinator
Mariana Gironella	....	script supervisor
Mandy Goldberg	....	assistant: Ms. Torresblanco
Mandy Goldberg	....	production coordinator: Los Angeles
Christian Hidalgo	....	production assistant
Octavio Hinojosa	....	production intern
Juan Pablo Rovayo	....	location manager
Lutgardo Vera	....	set
Arturo Yepez	....	assistant location manager
Quincy Perkins	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Compañías Productores

• Cabezahueca
• Tequila Gang
• Esperanto Filmoj
• Producciones Anhelo

Distribuidores

• Palm Pictures (2005) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2005) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Palm Pictures (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Tohokushinsha Film (2006) (Japan) (all media)
• Versus Entertainment (2006) (Spain) (all media)

Otras Compañías

• Cinetic Media  sales
• Jeremy Walker + Associates  publicity

También conocida como:

Chronicles (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, a scene of sexuality, and language.

Duración:

108 min | Japan:98 min

País:

Mexico | Ecuador

Idioma:

Español | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Netherlands:12 | Japan:R-18 | Singapore:M18 | Iceland:12 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Ecuador

Compañía:

Cabezahueca

Trivialidades:

This was Colombian actor John Leguizamo's first film in Spanish. As all of his projects have been in English, he felt awkward talking in Spanish while acting. He felt he didn't know the language.

A Tough Look at the Responsibilities of Tabloid Journalism

"Crónicas" is an updated, Latinization of Billy Wilder's cynical 1951 film "Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival)," where a tabloid reporter selfishly manipulated an emotional story of a trapped miner.

Where films like "Medium Cool" and "The China Syndrome" showed reporters as heroes getting radicalized by the stories they are covering, writer/director Sebastián Cordero effectively creates a hot, grimy, gritty environment for an ethically-challenged tabloid TV reporter who gets too mired in a serial murder investigation in the slums of Equador that recalls the hysteria and circus around the Atlanta child killings.

The irony of the power of today's ubiquitous media is shown to searing effect, including the power to manipulate it for personal purposes by all sides. The cat and mouse negotiations between the reporter and a questionable source (the enthralling Damián Alcázar) are as tense as those in "The Silence of the Lambs," and in an ugly environs that we can practically smell through the screen.

John Leguizamo is completely believable as a swaggering, self-promoting celebrity TV reporter for a popular show covering scandals across the southern hemisphere, flitting from his Miami base to drug lord hostages in Columbia to salacious murders, in and out of English. We are alternately sympathetic to his efforts and his bouts of conscience, then repelled by him.

He is flanked by somewhat stereotypes of a lanky, battle-hardened cameraman who eagerly focuses on close-ups of violence and gore and an ambitious woman producer who plunges into research and infidelity with equal verve, who utilize the most shiny, high tech communications gear to capitalize on their tunneling through the muck of human nature, though even they finally reach their ethical boundaries.

The focus is kept tightly on the reporter's responsibilities, as the producer comments ruefully: "We got the only honest cop in Latin America." The script and the camera certainly play with us, in edits of slowly revealed information that change our impressions of the facts, and as the reporter tensely tries to both get a scoop and do as much of the right thing as his ambitions allow.

As an intelligent thriller, this film certainly puts a brutal spin on the issue of a reporter protecting his sources, even as the worst of the implications happens off camera.

The background song selections fit the mood, though I have some feeling that the Spanish lyrics had significance.

The English subtitles had some errors.