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Mother and Son
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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It never commits deep, formal infamies, and yet it never tries to avoid them. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 11, 2023
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Leonora Addio
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Leonora Addio is not a good film, but it may be that very insufficiency that makes that universe closed in on itself, valuable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 11, 2022
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Contemplates reality as a delusion worth living and, therefore, as a privilege that no one has the right to take away from us. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Aftersun
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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A summer vacation with no defined time frame, and where the absence of answers and words give rise to a double emotional catharsis. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Journey to the Sun
(2021)
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Daniela Urzola
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A moving piece that never relapses into easy sentimentality. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Human Flowers of Flesh
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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Fascinates in its first bars due to aesthetic naturalistic preciousness, but it drowns in an excess of dilation and self-indulgence. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Ashkal
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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The problem is that the fusion of realism and fiction, of genre cinema and social denunciation, falls short. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Vera
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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A game between reality and fiction that skips all borders to build an artifact of inexhaustible complexity, both narrative and self-aware. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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My Love Affair with Marriage
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Becomes a somewhat one-dimensional film, which creates characters but does not give them the option to evolve spontaneously before the eyes of the audience. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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A Couple
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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A film as insufficient as – in its own way – fascinating and enigmatic. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Holy Spider
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Holy Spider is one of those films that achieve effects diametrically opposed to what is proposed, and not exactly for the better. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Fairytale
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Fairytale is not so much a phantasmagoria as a reality inevitably deformed by wear and tear, an impossible fiction that never fully starts, or that constantly restarts, because it no longer even finds its place in time. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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When the Waves Are Gone
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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A film conceived from atmospheres and environments continually pierced by indiscriminate perfusions and sudden gestures of rupture and change of tone. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Nayola
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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A style that expertly and organically combines the abstract with tribal symbolism with a hybrid palette and line between post-impressionism and expressionism. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Forever Young
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Ended with an indefinable feeling of bewilderment, something I've come to appreciate more and more in today's cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Close
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Goes in search of brilliance without any shame and therefore falls into a dazzling immodesty. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Sonne
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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An even more conservative film than those social models it tries to question. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Polaris
(2022)
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Daniela Urzola
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If the film is successful, it is in showing these relationships just beyond the figures of mother and daughter, focusing on a horizontal bond – that of sisters who share the same pain [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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Should be seen as a definitively classic object, an artifact built on a certain British tradition of the genre, both as melodrama and fantasy. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Rodeo
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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This is a debut as powerful and reckless as the machines on wheels that run through it. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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The Dam
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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Ali Cherri delivers in his first feature film...an extension of his landscapes orographic, making use of the panoramic format as beautiful as it is disturbing. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Return to Seoul
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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The film languishes due to an excessive expansion of footage that sometimes results in already developed concepts and ideas, causing its subtle and ambiguous ending to fail to cause the desired impact. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Skin Deep
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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Elusive and unfathomable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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The Kiev Trial
(2022)
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Daniela Urzola
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Loznitsa returns here to speak of the past.. demonstrating once again that reflection on war is endless and incomprehensible. And that the only thing left for us is to keep the memory alive through images. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Scarlet
(2023)
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Carlos Losilla
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A film with multiple ups and downs, which sometimes even intentionally dismembers itself, as if fiction were like the logs that the protagonist dismembers or the toys that he makes. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Other People's Children
(2022)
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Carlos Losilla
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This is a film of flat images, almost non-existent because of their hackneyedness, whose plot has no choice but to stand out above it in such a flabby and soft way that sometimes it seems to melt before our very eyes. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2022
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The March on Rome
(2022)
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Daniela Urzola
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A historical framework whose objective is none other than not to let memory die. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2022
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
(2022)
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Felipe Rodríguez Torres
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A story that is built from a kind of skein that is unraveling and composing organically... flooding a reality and an empty ecosystem in which its protagonists move. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Nov 07, 2022
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A Night of Knowing Nothing
(2021)
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Javier H. Estrada
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One of those few films that still believe and make believe in the ability of cinema to rebel, to become the engine of struggle, without ceasing to be intimate and captivating. [Full reivew in Spanish]
Posted Oct 17, 2022
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Both Sides of the Blade
(2021)
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Carlos Losilla
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Its failures seem to me much more stimulating than the presumed achievements of other films, more measured and premeditated, more calculated and predictable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Yamabuki
(2022)
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Miguel R. Pinar
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Yamabuki is a story about the dark side of life behind its sweet side. A melodramatic and tender story that will leave everyone's conscience and heart restless.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Yamabuki
(2022)
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Clara Ayuso Uceda
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It is in this contrast between the enveloping stillness and the ineffable inner conflicts that the essence of Yamabuki lies , crystallizing in the film's mise-en-scène through the combination of camera movements and still shots. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Beatrix
(2021)
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Javier Navío
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At all moments we get the sensation that we are invading Beatrix's privacy as we look for clues in the dialog…finding ourselves in a world that can appear strange, but in reality is recognizable. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Beatrix
(2021)
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María Paz Barragán Ugarteche
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A multi-day trip of observational nature capable of suggesting several layers of meaning despite its apparent simplicity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Las Gentiles
(2021)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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It was very difficult to tell a story that leads in a straight line to the temptation of suicide without any hint of transcendence or shock. And Las gentiles does it in an exemplary and moving way. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Showing Up
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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Reichardt shoots a small minimalist film, absolutely faithful to his work and its style, without any ambition and with the desire to build something apart from everything.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Showing Up
(2022)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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A film that is... pure restraint and sobriety in its admirable refinement and in its complex, deceptive simplicity. A true treasure.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Mother and Son
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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An entry to satisfy an average taste. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Mother and Son
(2022)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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A solvent, honest work, with a frank and non-paternalistic look. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Close
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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The allegories end up breaking the value of the film.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Close
(2022)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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A work of considerable scope, capable of finding a sensitive inner truth without emphasizing the gesture, without underlining, without discursive rhetoric; humble and modest.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 31, 2022
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Elvis
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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A memorable, and brilliant movie.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 27, 2022
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Broker
(2022)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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There is an undisguised component of comedy – to a matter as serious as baby trafficking...but that is the miracle that fiction can work when it reveals itself as a cure for prejudices and sterile dogmas.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 27, 2022
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The Beasts
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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An uncomfortable but highly exciting experience...entraps you, allowing no one to escape.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 27, 2022
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Pacifiction
(2022)
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Carlos F. Heredero
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Flat, discursive, blunt and rather ugly... but an ugliness that is not expressionist, but rather inexpressive.
Posted May 27, 2022
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Pacifiction
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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Shot with authentic virtuosity, spectacular images...the path towards darkness penetrates the viewer's consciousness. In the end, it seems that when paradise has ceased to exist, only hell remains.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 27, 2022
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
(2022)
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Jara Yáñez
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A fun celebration, sophisticated, intelligent, and rich in art… containing a powerful political potency.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2022
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Stars at Noon
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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The best, and most radical film Clair Denis has made to date.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2022
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The Mountain
(2022)
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Jara Yáñez
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Transforms into an almost abstract film with symbolic potentiality.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2022
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Dodo
(2022)
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Àngel Quintana
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A sort of second-rate vaudeville that does not provoke or transgress absolutely anything.
[Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 26, 2022
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