Synopsis
Smoke & Mirrors (El hombre de las mil caras, 2016) is a Spanish political thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alberto Rodríguez. It draws on the real-life figure of Francisco Paesa — a Spanish spy so slippery that even his biography reads like a novel someone made up.
Paesa, played by Eduard Fernández, ran covert operations against the Basque separatist group ETA before a corruption scandal forced him to flee Spain. When he returns with nothing, a disgraced former Civil Guard director named Luis Roldán shows up with a proposition: help move 1.5 billion pesetas out of reach of prosecutors, and pocket a million dollars for the trouble. Carlos Santos plays Roldán. José Coronado, Marta Etura and Itziar Ituño round out the cast. Nobody in this film is what they claim to be.
Rodríguez shoots it lean and cold — less interested in action sequences than in the mechanics of a con where every player thinks he's running it. Stream Smoke & Mirrors (2016) online on iFILM.
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