Olive Trees in Mourning, the Review of 'Los Tortuga'

In the heart of Jaén, the land of proud olive growers celebrated by Miguel Hernández, lies the alpha and omega of this story by Belén Funes, her second feature film, inspired by the impact of The Thief's Daughter (2019). Like Anabel, the protagonist played by Elvira Lara, Belén Funes has Andalusian blood in her veins, although her life and training as a filmmaker took shape in Barcelona. What she tells is not her life, but she draws from it refl…

The house is not always a home. Sometimes, it is a trap. Others, an emotional ruin. In Spanish cinema, it is a drama that has gone through generations. From Marco Ferreri’s stinging ‘El Pisito’ (1959) to the recent ‘Los Tortuga’ of Belén Funes, do not miss a film or director, the screen has shown how to find a roof, or lose it, stains life. ‘Los Tortuga’, one of the Spanish films of the year, collects with sensitivity and realism a story of upro…

Laureano Grande-Caballero.- How many lies about historical memory will we have to endure until truth buryes that Himalayan of falsehoods with which they have brainwashed entire generations of Spaniards? How many books that tell the historical truth about Franco's Republic and Spain will have to be burned, before the Spaniards are [...]