Fire Will Come
aka O que arde
First screened in October 2019
Director: Oliver Laxe. Cast: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Elena Mar Fernández, Inazio Abrao, Luis Manuel Guerrero Sánchez, Ivan Yañez, Nuria Sotelo, Rubén Gómez Coelho, Nando Vázquez, David de Peso, Alvaro de Bazal. Screenplay: Oliver Laxe and Santiago Fillol.

Twitter Capsule: Story purposely elliptical, structure designed to frustrate. But what a potent sensory experience and mood piece.

VOR:   Blend of fiction, documentary, and abstraction isn't just a formal ingenuity but part of a larger claim about immanent chaos and irrepressible reality.



Photo © 2019 Miramemira/4A4 Productions/Tarantula/Kowalski Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B+


Awards:
Chicago International Film Festival: Best Sound Design (David Machado, Xavier Souto)

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