‘Grave Encounters’: ONE GRAVE FOR THREE MEN Review – Fantaspoa 2021
On a whole, it’d remiss not preface this review with the statement that this journalist is largely unfamiliar with Latin American cinema on the whole. By contrast to the larger, better established European markets as Germany, France or Italy venturing into this nation’s output came with a degree of trepidation. And yet ‘UNA TUMBA PARA TRES’ aka ‘ONE GRAVE FOR THREE MEN’ (OGTM), was a pleasant surprise, though nothing ground breaking – no pun intended. It was included as part of the selection for the recent FANTASPOA Film Festival and given its kitschy entertainment value, it is easy to see why. OTGM starts as a by the numbers crime story with an bank robber/enforcer named Victor (Diego Cremonesi) having his vacation unceremoniously cut short by two colleagues Manuel (Demian Salamon) and Juan (Daniel Pacheco). Understandably fazed by this intrusion Victor reluctantly accompanies his colleagues, on the advice of their mob […]