1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

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https://nitro.download/view/3C1832D8A2E920B/the.endless.trench.2019.internal.720p.bluray.x264-rendezvous.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Marcio for this copy

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“Psycho Clowns in Franco Spain”: A twisted love triangle develops among a Spanish clown (Carlos Areces), his cruel rival (Antonio de la Torre) and the rival’s abused — but lustful — wife (Carolina Bang).

Jay Weissberg in Variety on the film for which Álex de la Iglesia has won the Silver Lion and an Osella for Best Screenplay in Venice, Balada triste de trompeta, known among English-speakers as either as A Sad Trumpet Ballad or The Last Circus: “Loud, tedious and unattractive in every sense, this barrage of blood set during the Franco regime combines the helmer’s customary cartoonishness with horror and ups it a thousand notches. Presumably his two vengeful clowns are meant to be an in-your-face comment on Spain’s fascist past, but the nonstop splatter has all the insight of an ultraviolent videogame.”

“The hideous tug of war is between puffy, owlish Sad Clown (Carlos Areces) and drunken, sadistic Happy Clown (Antonio de la Torre), yin-yang monsters whose deformed psyches eventually can no longer be camouflaged by greasepaint,” writes Fernando F Croce at the House Next Door. “At the center is Carolina Bang’s toothsome acrobat — the soul of Spain herself? If so, all the more credit to de la Iglesia for making her a darting-tongued lewdling who perversely relishes her own vile ravishment. The filmmaker’s lack of discipline ultimately mars the subtext, but the brazen fusion of Jodorowsky and Tashlin remains a heady mix that shows how timid and safe Pan’s Labyrinth really was.”

“[T]he film features a scattered mosaic of silent-film references, touching on James Whale and Tod Browning,” notes Guy Lodge at In Contention, “but its nightmarish sound mix makes a far stronger case for the merits of pre-talkie cinema.”

“Normally, I would run a mile from a movie with oddball stiltwalkers, flying midgets and comedy human cannonballs, but this had a wildness, sexiness and daring insanity that I found weirdly compelling,” writes the Observer’s Jason Solomons. “Two rampaging, disfigured clowns with machetes and machine guns duelling over a large-breasted trapeze artist on top of a 200ft-high cross? You gotta see that.”

Reports Camillo de Marco for Cineuropa: “‘It’s my most personal and risky film; I’ve put my heart and soul into it,’ explained the director, who identified with both protagonists. ‘In my opinion, it’s first and foremost a love story: mad, wild and horrible. In short, a mix of horror and passion: the things I love.’ On the dark period of the dictatorship, Iglesia says he has ‘brought out the anguish, with shades of film noir and irony, in order to be able to bury it. We have a terribly painful past which influences all our present-day lives. We’ve suffered pain and torture: things which change people and destroy the life of the film’s protagonist.'”
(From mubi.com)

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https://nitro.download/view/AE60CC528FBFD47/Balada.Triste.De.Trompeta.2010.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
In the sleepy Spanish town of Granada, a mild-mannered tailor and secret cannibal unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with his latest prospective victim, in director Manuel Martín Cuenca’s disturbing yet intoxicating tale of bizarre romance. Carlos (Antonio de la Torre) works as a tailor in Granada, one of Spain’s sleepy southern cities where time seems to have stopped — and where things that lurk in the shadows can remain unnoticed. Carlos lives alone and rarely interacts with anyone beyond his clients. No one would imagine that this shy and respectable tradesman is actually a murderer and a cannibal, remorselessly targeting Eastern European women who have no papers and filling his freezer with their flesh. Then the truly unexpected occurs: Nina (Olimpia Melinte), the Romanian twin sister of one of his victims, appears at his front door, and love slowly creeps in.

1.90GB | 1s 57m | 1024×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/053B897EE242DCB/Manuel_Martin_Cuenca_-_(2013)_Canibal.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/41F7A77545F4B21/Manuel_Martin_Cuenca_-_(2013)_Canibal.srt

Language:Spanish,Romanian
Subtitles:English

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