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The Platform (2019)

★★½ — The Platform (2019)

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's feature debut arrived at a productive moment for Spanish-language genre cinema, picking up the People's Choice Award in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto in 2019 before landing on Netflix, where it found an audience far beyond what its modest budget (just over a million euros) might have anticipated. Shot almost entirely on a single set in the Basque Country, the film is an original screenplay by David Desola and Pedro Rivero, owing a loose conceptual debt to the kind of allegorical science fiction that Jorge Luis Borges and early Kafka made fashionable, though it wears its social commentary fairly openly on its sleeve. Gaztelu-Urrutia has directed little since, making this something of a calling card rather than a chapter in a longer career.

I've been out to dinner with people worse than this. Honestly though platform is a good premise wrapped up in a "uh oh what next?" dilemma. A platform of food is lowered between hundreds of floors, each with 2 people on them. Those at the top eat heavily. Those at the bottom eat scraps. Every so often the places are switched. The problem is that the finale feels super rushed and abrupt. A common problem with netflix movies. It just ends all of a sudden with no real payoff.

Rating: ★★½ | Year: 2019 | Watched: 2025-07-01

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Stream: Netflix · Netflix Standard with Ads
Physical: Amazon UK

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