Illusions of grandeur

Spanish director Oriol Paulo returns to China to promote his latest suspense thriller, which taps into time travel to deliver the master storyteller's trademark punch, Xu Fan reports.

Thanks to the hit thriller The Invisible Guest, Spain's highest-grossing film of all time in China, director Oriol Paulo has already built up a sizable fan base in the country.

Recently, the Barcelona-born filmmaker visited Beijing to promote his latest flick, Mirage, which will open in theaters across the Chinese mainland on March 28. It is now available on Netflix.

Starring Spanish actress Adriana Ugarte and Argentine actor Chino Darín, the plot-twisting thriller - told through a sci-fi, time-travel frame - begins with a murder that takes place in Spain in 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall.