uNA WOMAN CALLED MAIXABEL
Type: dramatic, political ✦✦ 1/2
Director: Icíar Bollaín. With Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela, Urko Olazabal
Juan María Jáuregui, Spanish socialist politician, is killed in cold blood by a commando of Basque separatists from ETA in 2000.
Eleven years later the murderer and the widow (Tosar and Portillo, magnificent) meet and talk in the protected setting of a reconciliation programme.
Luis Tosar and Blanca Portillo (David Herranz).
A Bollaín, who made her acting debut with Ken Loach (Land and freedom), more interested in accounting for the complexity of your country’s recent history than addressing the universal question of forgiveness and the definition of political terrorism. Intimate and collective merge without watering down in psychologies. Three Goya Awards.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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