Obediant or Impulsive?

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2007)

There are hundreds of individual reviews of this film. Why? Because it is so moving. Set at a time when Franco's troops were finishing of the resistance to their move to power after the Spanish Civil War it is a fable of the the roles of duty and independence. The sadistic Fascist army captain Vidal played by Sergi Lopez has to be one of the most awesome Top 10 Movie Villains. The themes for each of the many intertwining plots seems to be the conflict between the importance of unquestioning duty or obedience and the importance of impulse or affect.
But I think it is almost better to go into this film knowing very little about it and just go with the tale. Magical