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Petroleo

120 min

A slow-building, politically charged thriller that traps you in a foreign engineer's mounting panic as his mission collapses into a desperate escape.

Directed by
Álvaro Pulpeiro
Tagline
oil, spy, politics
Overview
In the midst of an energy crisis, an oil engineer sent by a European commodities company ventures into a resource-rich Latin American country under a political upheaval. He is tasked with evaluating the integrity of the world's largest oil reservoir, however he is unable to do it, forcing him to escape at any cost.

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Directed by
Álvaro Pulpeiro
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • corruption
  • politics
  • survival
  • betrayal
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Álvaro Pulpeiro
Written by
Gustavo Rondón Córdova, Álvaro Pulpeiro, Laura C. Solano
Music
Daniele Guerrini
Runtime
120 min
Languages
Arabic, English, Spanish

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