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Director: | Alejandro Ezcurdia | ||
Screenplay: | Luiso Berdejo | ||
Country: | Spain | ||
Language: | Spanish | ||
Cinematography: | Johnny Yebra | ||
Editing: | Fran Amaro | ||
Music: | Roque Baños | ||
Distributor: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Three-60 (Spanish; Castilian: '''Tres 60'''|links=no) is a 2013 Spanish mystery thriller film directed by Alejandro Ezcurdia (in his directorial debut feature) from a screenplay by Luiso Berdejo, who is also the co-producer. The film stars Raúl Mérida alongside Guillermo Estrella, Sara Sálamo, and Joaquim de Almeida.
The plot is set against the backdrop of surf culture.[1] Upon finding a set of photographs featuring long-missing friend Iván, young surfer Guillermo teams up with younger brother Mario, Fine Arts student Daniela and pal "El Ruso" to crack the mystery, involving a sinister commercial cartel.[2]
The screenplay was penned by .[3] The film is a Bowfinger International Pictures, Atresmedia Cine, and Zinea Sortzen production with the participation of Antena 3 TV, ETB, ONO, Canal+ and La Sexta and backing from the Basque Government and Ayuntamiento de Donostia.[4] Shooting locations included the and in San Sebastián.[5]
Distributed by Warner Bros., the film was released theatrically in Spain on 26 July 2013.[6]
Fausto Fernández of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be a "a summer adventure of mystery, suspense and tension", "that puts all the infallible Hitchcockian arsenal at the service of a teen movie with a child sidekick".[7]
Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that although a thriller connoisseur "might dismiss [the film] as flat, we should not forget the [young] audience it appeals to", and, seeing it this way, "it is even formative".[8]