Miguel, the arrogant newspaper columnist at the center of “Madrid, 1987,” has spent decades building up a tough outer shell. Pompous, calloused, dismissive, he’s a parade float begging for a hole to be poked in it. That comes in the form of a would-be acolyte, Angela, and a malfunctioning door lock in this sweet, sometimes dull and certainly overlong film, written and directed by David Trueba. Miguel (José Sacristán) has been spouting literary analogies and trite aphorisms long enough that he believes them; Mr. Sacristán gives him equal measures of confidence and tediousness. But Miguel is lovably smug: when an autograph seeker interrupts his squiring of Angela (María Valverde), he signs her paper, “For Sonia, who has lousy timing.” Before long, he and Angela retreat to an apartment nearby, where the faulty door traps them in the bathroom, disrobed but not entangled.

That’s how they remain for most of the film (covering about a day’s worth of action) with one towel and boatloads of mutual suspicion between them. Angela — in Miguel’s mind just a target — is soft but not pliant, largely letting Miguel fill the air with lectures and, eventually, regrets. He sags. She glows. Everything is mildly sooty, as if the camera lens needed a wipe. On the one hand, this is an allegory about generational misunderstanding set at a moment when Spain was still emerging from the shadows of the Franco dictatorship. On the other, it’s about how easy it is to strip people down to their core, and how relieved they’ll be if you do. Only occasionally do Miguel and Angela try to escape — this is the one fate they share.

1.41GB | 1h 40m | 1021×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2EDC384F447177C/Madrid_1987_-_2011_-_David_Trueba.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/35b6a0b0a34d6/Madrid_1987_-_2011_-_David_Trueba.mp4

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English

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A woman uncovers some unsettling truths about her country and its history in this drama from Spain. Lola (Ariadna Gil) is a writer who feels creatively stifled and hasn’t been able to work out a new idea in months. Looking for something to clear her creative block, She takes an assignment to write a piece about Rafael Sanchez Mazas (Ramon Fontsere), a writer who sided with the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. While legend has it Mazas was killed by Republican troops, the truth is he was given protection and shelter by Friends of the Forest, a group of men who lived in the woods. As Lola tries to search out Joaquim Figueras, one of the last surviving Friends of the Forest, she discovers a soldier who captured Mazas and was prepared to shoot him, but opted to let him go at the last moment. As Lola’s writer’s block dissolves, she digs deeper in search of the truth about this elusive man and his mysterious actions during the war. Soldados de Salamina was based on a true story and the real-life Joaquim Figueras appears in the film, along with several other people who took part in the shelter and capture of Mazas. From AllMovie

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https://nitro.download/view/64DA721F14C2120/Soldados_de_Salamina.2003.576p.Bluray.x264-Rony.mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese

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