Being appropriately filmed on location, showing one colorful filming from Valle De Pas, Cantabria, North of Spain. Splendid photography with juicy atmosphere by Gonzalo Berridi. Good production design by prestigious Felix Murcia and correctly reflecting the atmosphere by that time and location. And Clara Lago as a teen of lurid imagination and special mention to veteran Juan Diego as a grumpy farmer who attempts to protect his daughter. Well played by known and notorious actors such as Luis Tosar as a hairdresser estranged from his father attempting to find out the truth, Marta Etura as the young countrywoman who follows faithfully orders her father both of whom were a happy couple in real life, though recently their lovely relationship has been broken. This film describes the rural life, including a character studio of local people and an enjoyable love story among a young couple. Its style is pretty much sour, dry and realistic as well in the atmosphere as in the fresh dialog. This is an intense rural drama crammed with social habits, intrigue, family relationship and a love story. This interesting film deals with a tragedy of human emotions pushed over the edge. At the end takes places a contest at Torrelavega livestock market and a final twist of unexpected consequences. The farmer called Gildo (Juan Diego) and his daughter Val (Marta Etura) scheme to keep the cause of death quiet, but tensions arise when Val falls in love with the dead farmer's son, Rai (Luis Tosar), a hairdresser in the city who has returned to Valley Pas to the funeral. A countryman lives with his two daughters (Marta Etura, Clara Lago) along with their cows and farm animals. There takes place a struggle over the prize milk cow and it leaves a farmer dead and another fearful of detention. Long years of hatred and festering resentments among two families facing each other and terminating into a burst of violence. It is set in Valle De Pas, next to Torrelavega, Cantabria, North of Spain there farmers are being forced to limit their milk production in order to satisfy the E.U. Maria sends Lucas off to help people find their families and finds his own along the way.Rural tragedy set in wonderful landscapes and starred by a nowadays Spanish all-star-cast such as Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Clara Lago, Juan Diego and being compellingly directed by Manuel Gutierrez Aragon. They are so far unharmed and are found by some locals who take them to a nearby hospital. Maria and the eldest, Lucas, have drifted elsewhere and Henry vows to search every shelter and every hospital for them. Miraculously, the family survive Henry drifts back to consciousness with an overwhelming fear when his children are nowhere to be seen, though it is not long before his two youngest discover him. Before the family, and other vacation-goers, have time to run for their lives, they suddenly find themselves caught in one of the most horrific natural disasters of the generation the tsunami resulting from the earthquake of the Indian Ocean. One day, whilst the Maria relaxes by the pool, watching husband Henry play ball with the kids, an ominous, trembling noise can be heard getting closer and closer. It's December 2004 and a young mother and father take their three sons on a paradise vacation to Southeast Asia where they are not far from white sandy beaches and a clear blue ocean - a far cry from the freezing winter temperatures back home. As are hints that he may have done this before.Ĭontinue reading: Sleep Tight Review We only ever get a vague idea of his overall plan, but the things he does along the way are sinister enough to keep us nervous. Every scene is a bundle of insinuation that suggests something truly nasty, and it's refreshing that Tosar never tries to make us understand what Cesar is up to: we see why everyone likes him, and also why they should be terrified of him. And while her boyfriend (San Juan) is away on business, he lurks in the shadows of her apartment plotting something unspeakable.ĭirector Balaguero keeps the film on low boil, refusing to explain everything in the plot while quietly twisting the moody tone. But his biggest plan is for Clara (Etura), the sexy young woman in flat 5B. But he secretly despises the residents, and is quietly destroying their lives, tormenting an elderly woman (Martinez) and her two beloved dogs, brutally threatening a young girl (Almeida Molina), and casting suspicion on mother-and-son cleaners (Fernandez and Morilla). An impressive presence in the prison thriller Cell 211, the Bolivian political drama Even the Rain and as a drug kingpin in the Miami Vice movie, Spanish actor Tosar stars as Cesar, the likeable doorman at a creaky Madrid apartment block.
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