Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla, Lucia Bosé, Otello Toso
A professor is having an affair with the adulterous wife of a wealthy businessman. On one of their interludes, they run over and kill a cyclist. They decide to leave the scene of the crime and let it ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 22, 2008
Stats: 51 reviews
a thriller about a a professor and his mistress who commit a hit and run and are overcome with guilt. the film explores the gap between the upper and low class of Spain in the 1950s during the Franco era, the time in which the film was released.
An interesting take on paranoia and suspense in Spanish. The movie resembles Hitchcocks earlly movies in execution, yet lacks in terms of originality and the eccenctric touch of the old master. A novel watch for fans of film noire, just to see a take on the genre that is not Amer...( read more)
Un final sobreextendido y algunas actuaciones muy melodramáticas restan a un filme que, de otro modo, podría haber sido una gran película. / An overextended finale and some rather melodramatic performances mar what could otherwise have been a great film.
On the surface is a simple movie about boredom, adultery, and guilt. Underneath there is a harsh critique on the socio-political situation of post-civil-war Spain. The acting, setting, and dialogue might be a little artificial at times, but the (bautifully edited) symbolism more ...( read more)
Almost paralleling the neo-realism in Italian Cinema, this is a brilliant movie trying to depict the class divide in Franco Spain and the effect war has on a mind. It brings these issues into the realm of a real upper class life. A very good commentary on how war can disintegrate...( read more)
Spanish noir from 1955 -- suggesting that the French New Wave auteurs did not get there first (apart from Americans, who started the whole thing.) Although the movie follows the traditional Aristotelian arc of tragedy, it has enough style, cynicism, intimations of sleaze, and low...( read more)
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