There is no dropjaw surprise to the revelation of the killer at the end. The script twists and turns like a dutiful police procedural but fails to provide anything that keeps us as an audience gripped or any twists that jolt us in our seats. And you are absorbed in it as the investigation starts to happen … only for nothing much to really happen. Police Inspector Amaia Salazar (Marta Etura) and her partner Jonan Etxaide (Carlos Librado “Nene”) The cinematographic palette is all navy blues, greys and blacks as though the whole film takes place on a permanently rainy night. It seemed to have all the ingredients – ritual child killings, a serial killer, the suggestion of a local Bigfoot type creature in the background, the heroine having to delve deep into her messed-up and abusive family history to solve the case. I always enjoy a dark and twisted police procedural and looked forward to The Invisible Guardian. Naderman and Molina subsequently went on to film Dolores Redondo’s other books in the Baztan trilogy with Legacy of the Bones (2019) and Offering to the Storm (2020) The director was Fernando Gonzalez Molina who had previously worked in dramas. The rights to the books were brought up German producer Peter Nadermann who has been behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and sequels, as well as the hit tv series’ The Killing (2007-12) and The Bridge (2011-8). All of these wind mythology of the region in alongside police procedurals. Redondo followed the adventures of her detective Amaia Salazar up in two subsequent works Legacy of the Bones (2016) and Offering to the Storm (2017). Her success began with her second book The Invisible Guardian (2013), a crime procedural based around the area of Baztan, which is near where she grew up. As other teenage girls are killed, this requires Amaia to have to delve into her difficult and uncomfortable childhood.ĭolores Redondo is a Spanish crime writer. This means returning to her hometown Elizondo, which is at the centre of the killings. ![]() She is reassigned to investigate the other killings. ![]() Amaia sees similarities to other cases she investigated and believes it is a serial killer at work. The girl has been found strangled, left nude and with a locally baked txantxigorri cake placed on her pubic mound. She is assigned to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in the Baztan area. Amaia Salazar is a police detective in Pamplona.
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