acid reflects

Three films from today’s Pelikula/Pelicula (24th Manila Spanish Film Festival) Maratón:

El 47 (The 47), a heartfelt and quite moving dramatization of how a bus driver’s actions changed not only his town in the boondocks of Barcelona but the country of Spain in 1975. Loved it. ;

Tasio, the raw (by raw I mean unembellished) story of a man and his determination to preserve a dying way of life in the mountains. Very evocative of the era (mid-1980s) it was from. Reminiscent of our own classics at the time.

Lastly, Solos En La Noche (Alone in the Night) was the dud of the day; a feeble attempt at a comedy of Shakespearean errors, as insufferable as the insufferable, pushover of a main character among revolutionaries who decide to hide together one night during the fascist takeover of the Spanish parliament in 1981. Started out strong, but ultimately Meh.