Don’t know how but I spent six and a half months in Santander without venturing even once to the cinema. And then, during my few days in Valencia, I just went to see this tragicomedy I’d never heard about before.
Jaulas is the first feature film by Nicolás Pacheco (Seville, 1980); to me, it is a work of a mature master. Perhaps inevitably, the critics note the influences of Kusturica, Almodóvar and Buñuel — and why not, they are all great influences. Yet Pacheco has got a gorgeous style of his own.
I am a bit uncertain as to when the story is set. (Where = Seville, no doubts about that.) It could be taking place right now, yet mobile phones are conspicuous by their absence. 1990s, even 1980s, perhaps? And does it matter?
Watch this film, if you can find where.
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