Reviews

This is one of the worst movies I've seen lately. I'm very surprised that so many people gave 10 points to this movie, and the reason can't be other that the director, Ferran Audi, has a lot of friend or a very big family. Sometimes it appears to me that the movie intends to be some kind of tribute to Ingmar Bergman (why if not this Bibi Anderson cameo), but the only thing in common with Bergman is that both tried to be profound and only one of them succeed. The best of the film is some of the views from the air of the fjords and the beautiful city of Ålesund. In the case that somebody is interested in this, I recommend a good National Geographic documentary. It works good the use of three languages. The rest is better to forget about it. Waste of time.

I approached this film (as they say) with some reluctance, perhaps especially by some negative comments I had read about it in the Spanish media. I must say, and this is of course a very personal opinion, that the film deserves a higher score than has been given, clearly not a masterpiece, but the actors are quite good, especially Juan Diego, and the script (which seems to owe much to the book of Javier Cercas, which I have read recently, and this is one reason which I was very happy to watch a new version of this historical event) is quite correct. In short, I recommend it for those who lived coup (and already have 40 springs) and luckily for were born after they shall learn things. There is a miniserie about the king of Spain (Luis Homar is the main actor) in which the 23-F occupies a lot of space, but it's not as interesting as this one.