a 20-minute ovation is too much for this

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2010)

I liked the movie. Although, ten minutes later I was not able to recall its virtues, except for the stunning enigmatic image of Sergi Lopez's character. From my point of view, THAT's the face of Spanish cinema.
The best thing about the movie is the overall idea. The script is mediocre, lots of filler-dialogues. The war story and the fantasy looked at alone are shallow. Philosophy is scarce. I bet, Argentineans or Brazilians would have implemented the idea better, but fortunately they haven't had cataclysms of Spanish Civil War scale in their history. The movie lacks gradations of grey. You can't paint a worthy full-scale masterpiece on civil wars topic with black-&-white paint only.
But for some reasons, I still liked the movie.