David Alvarez, Diogo Infante, Elvira Mínguez, Ernesto Chao, Gonzalo Uriarte ...( see more  see more... ) , Jaun Diego Botto , Juan Diego Botto , Laura Mana , Luis Tosar , Marta Etura , Rosa Álvarez

Years after a violent incident tore his family apart, a young man returns home to find his father's art studio remarkably intact, frozen in time as if nothing had happened. Later, to his horror, he di...( read more  read more... )scovers that his mother is still alive -- a fact contrary to what he'd been told as a boy -- and living in the local insane asylum. Will he heed her lunatic warnings to run away as fast as he can, or will he stay to fight his family demons?

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NC-17, 108 min.

Directed by: Xavier Villaverde

Release Date: January 1, 2003

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DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005

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  • July 19, 2009
    Para mí, siempre ha sido incuestionable el talento de Luis Tosar, Juan Diego Botto y Marta Etura. Pero en Trece Campanadas (2002), nunca acaban por convencer, no por culpa de ellos, sino por el errático y confuso guión. Tosar interpreta aquí el personaje que mejor sabe hacer, el ...( read more)explosivo y violento hombre, en conflicto permanente con todos los que le rodean; mientras, Marta Etura vuelve a ofrecer una aceptable actuación, como la chica guapa y vulnerable, siempre en medio de un tremendo problema romántico, en donde un chico confundido nunca puede expresarle sus sentimientos.

    El chico en cuestión es Jacobo, personaje de Juan Diego Botto, que ha regresado de Argentina a Galicia para enfrentar a su tormentoso pasado. El realizador gallego Xavier Villaverde, inicia la película de manera notable, con Jacobo de niño, atestiguando los maltratos de los que era objeto su mamá por parte de su violento padre, un renombrado escultor interpretado por Tosar con suma convicción y acostumbrada fuerza histriónica. Mateo, el escultor, muere en circunstancias misteriosas, y la mamá de Jacobo puede ser la responsable.
    Contrario a estos problemas, me gustó cómo Villaverde intenta emular a Hitchcock en varias escenas, como en la muerte de un personaje cayendo de un andamio dentro de la catedral, o en esa escena dentro del campanario, que recuerda también al Buñuel de ?Él? (1953). Pero es una pena que estos aciertos estilísticos en la realización, se vean empañados por lo que ha sido un problema de edición, que no hace más que hacernos sentir más confusos que el mismo Jacobo.
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  • May 18, 2008
    I didn't know what to expect from this movie. I thought it would be a supernatural flick, in a sense it is. But not a scary feature. A artist with amnesia of what happened to him as a child returns home much to the angst of his mother in the loony bin who isn't the least bit insa...( read more)ne. It's the fool doctors and housekeeper that disbelieves the mother's truth about her bastard husband who did this to her in the first place, abusing her and taking a mistress. A self defense act in the boy's past killed his father to stop him from killing his mother, somehow the bell chimes 13. Hence the 13 curses. The father haunts his studio and tries to take possession of his son, which is why the mother wanted her son to stay away from home and besides the son thought/believed his mother was dead. It was the housekeeper who told him she was dead so he would have nothing to come home to and be safe.
  • June 16, 2006
    I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE LIKE FUCKIN MAD CRAZY

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