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Children of the Wind (Director's Cut)
6.7
/10
119 Ratings

Synopsis

Fernando, a young criminologist who lives in Madrid, travels to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to meet Magaly again. She is a Cuban woman he defended in Court many years ago, whom he helped escape by providing her with a false passport.

Our take

The debut film from Fernando Merinero is part B-movie, part protest against the puritanism and excessive abstraction of Spanish cinema. With echoes of Almodóvar, Merinero’s jagged, sexy film is a story of obsession, passion, and disinhibition, about being free whatever the cost.