Darkness. For the first four and a half minutes of Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, nothing is seen; instead, all that is heard is the gentle creaking of wood and the sense of growing alarm. Testing your surroundings, you feel the sharp prick of stray wood chips. Pushing against the wooden wall above you, the truth begins to dawn on you: you’re trapped. This scenario is the premise of Buried, director Rodrigo Cortes’ second feature film starring ...