Perdida (Spanish: Missing) is a 2018 internationally co-produced crime thriller drama film directed by Alejandro Montiel. It is based on Argentinian journalist Florencia Etcheves’s novel Cornelia.
Plot
Fourteen years ago, during a study trip, a teenage girl, Cornelia Villalba (Amaia Salamanca) ran away with her companions to go dancing and got lost in the middle of the Patagonian forests, and she is never heard from again. At present, Manuela Pelari (Luisana Lopilato) her best friend, decides to use her police tools to undertake a new search. Driven by disrespect and a compelling need to end years of silence and broken ties, she is faced with a power that threatens to turn her into one more piece of a cog that could cost her her life. A commissioner who acts as a father, a ruthless murderer and a Spanish woman as beautiful as it is dangerous, a girl raised outside the law and a colleague who tries to indoctrinate a Pipa mistress of disobedience, are the characters that surround a search that does not give respite.
Cast
Luisana Lopilato as Manuela "Pipa" Pelari
Amaia Salamanca as Cornelia Villalba/Nadine Basset/Sirena
Nicolás Furtado as Martín Seretti
Oriana Sabatini as Alina Zambrano
Julián Serrano as Young Ariel
Rafael Spregelburd as Oreyana
Mara Alberto as Clara Villalba
Sara Sálamo as Dr. Claudia Marini
Laura Laprida as Leonora
Arancha Martí as Lucrecia
Marina Garré as Micaela
Benjamín Otero as Rodrigo
Carlos Alcántara Vilar as Adalberto
Juan Ignacio Cane as Ariel
Mora Magnarelli as Young Cornelia
Micaela Kastan as Young Leonora
Sol Wainer as Young Mariana
Pedro Casablanc as Egipcio
Carlos del Río as Sacristan
Angelina Napoli
Nicolás Torres
Ramón Oreyana
Production
The director Alejandro Montiel after working as creative director, he together with Mili Roque Pitt looked for a film to direct in a different genre that is not comedy, as Montiel likes the police, he read the book and decided to adapt it for a movie.
Casting
Luisana Lopilato for the role had to practice martial arts and learn to use a revolver with the help of a policeman. The film was the cinematographic debut of Oriana Sabatini and Julián Serrano.
Shooting
The film began on October 2, 2017 in natural settings in Argentina and Spain.
Prequel
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 20% based on 1 positive and 4 negative critic reviews.