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Centauro (2022)
Run Time: 1:29:00
Producer: Borsalino Productions, Catalunya Film Commission
Director: Daniel Calparsoro
Writer: Gaël Nouaille, Gemma Ventura, Manuel Darriba
Key Cast: Àlex Monner, Begoña Vargas, Abraham Pérez Fernández
FILM MAKERS
Centauro, a 2022 action thriller film directed by Daniel Calparsoro, and shot in the Spanish provinces of Barcelona and Teruel. The film is a remake of the 2017 Yann Gozlan film ‘Burn Out’, which was based on the 2012 novel ‘Balancé dans les cordes’ by Jérémie Guez. While there is no subtitled trailer, the film is available in English on Netflix. Link below.
SUMMARY
Rafa’s hooked on the pure, fiery feelings he gets from speed racing, but when his kid’s mom gets mixed up with drug dealers, he burns rubber to save her.
Seeking to settle a debt, wannabe pro biker Rafa decides to pledge his services to a criminal organization. However, he is torn between the two lives he is leading as an honest man in the morning and a courier at night. Eventually this double life takes a toll on him and he resorts to drugs, which affects his dream of being a pro racer. At last he understands that there is no way out from the crime life and with help of his friend he tries to escape the drug cartel but is identified by the police and offered the same job just on the side of law which he takes up as he realises that family is the most important thing.
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Watch the full film on Netflix
