2014 Spanish film
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Directed by | Luis Marías |
Screenplay by | Luis Marías |
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Cinematography | Pau Monràs |
Edited by | Ainara López Bermejo |
Music by | Aritz Villodas |
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Distributed by | Syldavia Cinema |
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Country | Spain |
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Fuego is a 2014 Spanish thriller film directed by Luis Marías and starring José Coronado, Aida Folch, and Leyre Berrocal.
Plot
11 years after surviving an ETA car bomb attack that killed his wife and left his 10-year-old daughter Alba mutilated, hateful former cop Carlos (now living in Barcelona and working in the security sector) only thinks about vengeance.
Cast
- José Coronado as Carlos
- Aida Folch as Alba
- Leyre Berrocal [eu] as Ohiana
- Montse Mostaza [ca] as Marina
- Gorka Zufiaurre as Aritz
- Jaime Adalid as Mariusz
Production
The film is a Tornasol Films, Historias del Tío Luis, and Fausto Producciones production, and it had the collaboration of TVC and EiTB, and backing from ICAA, the Basque Government, and Ayuntamiento de Bilbao. It was shot in Spanish and Basque. Shooting locations included Barcelona, Bilbao, Lekeitio, Bermeo, Gatika, and Gorliz.
Release
The film was presented at the 52nd Gijón International Film Festival (FICXixón) on 22 November 2014. Distributed by Syldavia Cinema, it was released theatrically in Spain on 28 November 2014.
Reception
Javier Ocaña of El País deemed the film "a challenging and very courageous attempt that, nevertheless, is shipwrecked both by a lack of complexity and by narrative and technical imbalances".
Manuel Piñón of Cinemanía justified the only star out of 5 he give to the film, because "at least a spiritual retreat is due for Marías so he can reexamine the innumerable errors of his film".
See also
References
- "Fuego (2014)". Fotogramas. 17 September 2014.
- ^ ""Fuego", l'última producció de Luis Marías". TV3. 9 July 2014 – via Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals.
- Rivera, Alfonso (25 November 2014). "Fuego: heridas abiertas". Cineuropa.
- "Estreno en televisión de 'Fuego', hoy, en 'La Noche de…'". EiTB. 27 January 2015.
- ^ "'Fuego' – estreno en cines 28 de noviembre". Audiovisual451. 26 November 2014.
- "Luis Marías presenta en Gijón su película 'Fuego'". Diario Vasco. Grupo Vocento. 23 November 2014.
- ^ Piñón, Manuel (1 December 2014). "Fuego". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
- Ocaña, Javier (27 November 2014). "Yo soy la justicia". El País.
- 2014 films
- Spanish films about revenge
- 2010s Spanish-language films
- 2010s Spanish films
- Spanish-language thriller films
- Films shot in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Films shot in Barcelona
- Films shot in Bilbao
- Films set in Barcelona
- 2014 thriller films
- Spanish thriller films
- Films about ETA (separatist group)
- Tornasol Films films
- Basque conflict films