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Spain 2007 / JUAN CARLOS FALCÓN RIVERO / 113 min. spanish version cast: ELVIRA MINGUEZ, JOAN DALMAU, ANGELA MOLINA, ANTONIA SAN JUAN, MARIA GALIANA
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Because there is no room for the storage of her suddenly deceased husband Don Lucio in the cramped little home of Eloisa, Dona Isabel off ers up her home for use. However, it is not mourning but long nurtured hate that breaks out, and the presence of the dead brings to light uncomfortable truths, shamefully concealed secrets, fears, hidden desires and unfulfilled yearnings. While the widow enjoys her newly gained freedom her neighbors settle their drastic accounts with the dead,
a denunciator and pursuer of Franco’s regime. This is a bitter, poetic tragicomedy about the attitudes of a fishing village on the Canary Islands in the 1960’s.

awards: IFF Las Palmas 2007: Audience Award; FF Ibiza 2007: Best film, Best actress; Peníscola Comedy FF 2007: Best actress; 3x Festival „De cine de Lorca“ 2007: Best film, Best director, Best actress; IFF Montreal 2007: Best debut; Europacinema Viareggio 2007: Best film; 2x „Cinespana de Toulouse“ FF 2007: Best film, Best original soundtrack

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