La Gomera - L'isola dei fischi

A crowd-pleasing Romanian thriller with twists to rival Line of Duty

Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge in The Whistlers, a satisfyingly clever, surprisingly high-octane narc thriller from Romania's Corneliu Porumboiu, which gussies up its intrigue with a delightfully original method of passing on messages without police interception. There's a reason that the film's criminals, aiming to launder 30 million Euros in drug money, have picked La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, as their attempted hideaway. It's to do with "el silbo", a whistled register of Spanish that the islanders have long used to communicate across miles of valleys and ravines. [...]

di Tim Robey, articolo completo (3953 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Daily Telegraph 21 maggio 2019