In a remote village in northern Spain, a family house is still locked with three padlocks. 70 years ago, in the square where every year they nail a pine tree in a medieval festival, they killed a great-grandmother and her daughter. A double femicide in full view of everyone, silenced until now.
This is a film of portentous elaboration, very precise in its forms and intensity. Now what remains to be made is the film about those people from Soria who have been left helpless with boredom after Muñoz’s visit. That possibility only enhances this extraordinary film, a tragedy far away in time but personal: a drama of individuals, difficult to reduce to a historical block without betraying the truth of that sorrow. There is an excellent parallel with La laguna negra, based on a poem by Machado: in the final part, with the director reading the file, there is an extraordinary montage of scenes from the film, images of the real places where the events occurred and the reading, of an overwhelming tension.
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