Fragmentada, with Jazmín Stuart, or when it is a pleasure to dive into a film.

What a pleasant surprise movies are, and thrillers in particular, when they withhold information from the viewer at the outset. When one from the seat has no idea why they say the things they say, and what they keep quiet, because the viewer feels that he or she enters the story and the lives of the characters in a natural, spontaneous, frank way, if you will. This is what happens with the new film with Jazmín Stuart.

Broken has the singularity of being a genre film and dealing with current issues.

There is a murder and it is not known who carried it out, not even their motives. There is a town, in Patagonia, near Bariloche, where almost all the actions take place. Irina is a policewoman, and has been suspended, we will know later, since information is scarce and it was not necessary to say it, because she got out of hand in an interrogation.

And Juana was also suspended, but from school: she brought a toy gun and pointed it at some of her classmates.

If it wouldn’t hurt Irina to rebuild her relationship with her only daughter -there is no father in sight-, this trip to her hometown will reunite them, after a long time, with her mother and Juana’s grandmother, Nina (Beatriz Spelzini).

They traveled because Irina’s godfather (César Bordón), one of the few policemen in town, warned her that her mother is ill and will have to start treatment.

A young woman murdered

But, and without that but there would be no thriller, the daughter of Irina’s best friend is found dead, tied up in the forest. And the situation is stronger than she is: Irina will start investigating, she will try to help her godfather, she will have to take care of her mother and also keep a close eye on her daughter.
The murdered young woman was investigating the non sanctos papers of a mining company, and -for those who have not yet seen Killers of the Flower Moon- let’s just say that there is some point of contact between the native people here, the Mapuches, and the Osage, in Scorsese’s film with DiCaprio and de Niro.

The filmmaking, the filmmaking, the performances, the pointed dialogue and the editing, everything is fine in Fragmented. It will grow, and although for a matter of casting, the twists and turns will make one tend to look down on some character, the film more than meets the guidelines and patterns of the genre. In this debut film by Facundo Escudero Salinas, it is also the women who take the reins of the story, from their leading roles. Hopefully it will have the luck that national cinema has not had, in general, this year in its passage through the screens.

CLARÍN