Goldbach's conjecture, an enigma that puzzled great mathematician minds, is the basis of this tale about the solving of this old riddle. Four people are summoned to come to Fermat's home for a dinner. There are three men, and a woman who don't know one another, but they have, at one time or another, tried to make sense of the poser, that even greater minds throughout history have not been able to get it right.
The mysterious Fermat, an older gentleman, is an attentive host, but kind of aloof. After dinner Fermat and his guests, who are given names of famous mathematicians, Galois, Pascal, Hilbert and Oliva, go into a room where they are probably going to be given drinks. The host receives a cryptic phone call on his cell phone and excuses himself because he must go to the hospital where his daughter has been taken.
The four math geniuses are left with another cell phone where they begin receiving PDA messages that asks them to solve different difficult math problems going from easy to more difficult ones. As a condition, if the solutions are not found in time, the room will begin shrinking. Revelations about the four participants begin to emerge and the claustrophobic atmosphere begins to take its toll on the four. The menace of being crushed by the walls create tension among the four minds knowing full well they are doomed unless they find a solution that might be beyond themselves.
Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena, wrote and directed this film that was a surprise when shown recently on cable. The realm of the work of Goldbach weighs heavily in the narrative. Little is known about the mysterious host, whose name is also that of one of the most distinguished minds in the world, Pierre De Fermat, appears to know the inner souls of the people he invited to play with their minds, or does he really? LLuis Homar, Alejo Sauras, Santi Millan and Elena Ballesteros make an interesting combination in this Spanish film that makes one wonder about what really is going on in it. Federico Luppi is only seen briefly, yet his presence is all over the place.
The mysterious Fermat, an older gentleman, is an attentive host, but kind of aloof. After dinner Fermat and his guests, who are given names of famous mathematicians, Galois, Pascal, Hilbert and Oliva, go into a room where they are probably going to be given drinks. The host receives a cryptic phone call on his cell phone and excuses himself because he must go to the hospital where his daughter has been taken.
The four math geniuses are left with another cell phone where they begin receiving PDA messages that asks them to solve different difficult math problems going from easy to more difficult ones. As a condition, if the solutions are not found in time, the room will begin shrinking. Revelations about the four participants begin to emerge and the claustrophobic atmosphere begins to take its toll on the four. The menace of being crushed by the walls create tension among the four minds knowing full well they are doomed unless they find a solution that might be beyond themselves.
Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena, wrote and directed this film that was a surprise when shown recently on cable. The realm of the work of Goldbach weighs heavily in the narrative. Little is known about the mysterious host, whose name is also that of one of the most distinguished minds in the world, Pierre De Fermat, appears to know the inner souls of the people he invited to play with their minds, or does he really? LLuis Homar, Alejo Sauras, Santi Millan and Elena Ballesteros make an interesting combination in this Spanish film that makes one wonder about what really is going on in it. Federico Luppi is only seen briefly, yet his presence is all over the place.