La estanquera de Vallecas

Spain

1987

106 Min

Color

Spanish

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR José Luis Alonso de Santos, Gonzalo Goicoechea, Eloy de la Iglesia

CAST Emma Penella, José Luis Gómez, José Luis Manzano, Maribel Verdú, Fernando Guillén, Jesús Puente, Antonio Gamero, Antonio Iranzo, Pedro Nieva Parola, Tina Sáinz

PROD DES Juan Puerta, Julio Esteban

SOUND José Antonio Bermúdez, Susana Ocaña

Synopsis

Leandro, an unemployed bricklayer, and Tocho, his a young friend, are planning to rob a monopoly of Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Fair, the tobacconist, is alerting neighbors. Before the shouts and threats they have no choice but to bar the front door. Alerted by neighbors, the police arrive, after vacate the square, take positions to await events. Inside the sealed, the confrontation between the two friends and their “hostages,” the tobacconist and his niece Ángeles, is relaxing, and an incipient rapport develops between them. –FilmAffinity

Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

Born in the Basque town of Zaráuz on 1.1.1944. He studied film at the IDHEC in Paris and began making films in the mid-sixties; his films were considered provocative in Spain under Franco. Iglesia makes use of popular genres such as the thriller and the horror film in order to convey his social criticism; he was also one of the first to address homosexuality in his films. In 1996, San Sebastián film festival featured an extensive retrospective of his work. –Berlinale