"Opus" Is Fun But Doesn't Know Its Own Motivation
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.

A television team produces a program about ghosts and paranormal phenomena in a desolate area bordering Portugal, in the southwest of Spain. After visiting different villages, frustrated by the lack of information, they arrived in Santa Ana, an abandoned town in 1940 after the Civil War and submerged specifically in a swamp where they are trapped forever.
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.
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