Weekend films

"You'll Never Find Me', a refined psychological thriller

From Australia comes one of the most interesting titles of the summer at the cinema. Among the new releases is the Argentinean 'El Jockey'

by Andrea Chimento

18 July 2025

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A chamber horror
El jockey

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Genre cinema, as we know, has one of its greatest moments of glory in the summer, but often the titles on offer are not up to the standards of an over-sophisticated audience. One exception by far is 'You'll Never Find Me', a film that mixes thriller and horror and that finally arrives in our cinemas after its first presentations at various international festivals during 2023.

Directed by Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell, it tells the story of Patrick, a lonely and enigmatic man who lives in an isolated mobile home on the edge of a deserted campsite, immersed in silence, on the edge of the known world. One night, during a torrential storm, a mysterious woman, wet and disoriented, knocks on his door seeking shelter from a climate that seems out of control.

“You’ll Never Find Me” e gli altri film della settimana
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As the hours spent in the company grow longer and denser, Patrick's secrets gradually emerge, fuelling an atmosphere of growing suspicion and unease.

Coming from Australia, this feature film is one of the most interesting products of the summer at the cinema. The psychological strength of the operation is evident right from the initial plot, thanks also to the combination of realistic elements and slightly unnatural events that begin to envelop the house, pushing both characters into a state of progressive disquiet.

A chamber horror

You could call 'You'll Never Find Me' a chamber horror, a film that focuses on a single environment and only two characters, thinking a lot about the power of speech and listening. He does most of the talking, while she observes, doubts and soon begins to notice disturbing details in the environment and in the man's increasingly ambiguous answers.

For Allen and Bell, this is a debut and it is extremely fascinating that they have set their sights on such a simple-looking product for their first feature, but really ambitious in terms of the reflections it wants to propose.

A few passages may appear a little too didactic, but the film retains its strength thanks to a constant tension, also due to an almost expressionist use of photography and, of course, the claustrophobic feeling that this feature film gives from beginning to end.

A real surprise.

El jockey

Despite coming from an undoubtedly superior media battage, 'El Jockey', an Argentinean film presented in competition at the last Venice Film Festival, is considerably less successful.

Behind the camera is the talented Luis Ortega, who had convinced in 2018 with 'The Angel of Crime' and who seems to have lost much of his polish here.

At the centre of the plot is Remo, a highly-regarded jockey who is in danger of ruining his career and his life because of too many vices. However, a serious accident during a race will give him the opportunity to start all over again, building a new identity and a new existence.

El Jockey', a film that speaks of sexuality, masks and contradictions in a sort of undefined stream of consciousness that represents the disorientation of the times we are living in, starts from important premises.

Too bad that Ortega mishandles all the source material, putting too much meat on the fire and ending up not living up to the premise. A few delicate and effective moments are lost in an unnecessarily chaotic and grotesque structure, which reaches an utterly ramshackle conclusion incapable of leaving anything to think about at the end of the credits. Pity.