“We think we can control everything, and in the end, just nothing.”Īnd the film’s somber, almost funereal tone beautifully builds the dread that a ticking clock third act - when plans are set, and undone. I love the way the script grapples with its subtext, losing control of one’s life, senses and bowels in extreme old age. And when a junkie cryptically remembers, “You were dead,” we start to understand. ![]() This is an overcast place, a town small enough where people know each other, especially those with any dealings with the underworld. Horror director Paco Plaza (“Veronica”) steadily builds the suspense tucked into the Juan Galiñanes and Jorge Guerricaechevarría script, and he and his production team add generous helpings of dread. But in between Lamaze classes, patient care and staff meetings, Mario is thinking something through. “Better a little indifference” to the indignities of old age, Mario speculates (in Spanish with English subtitles), “than pity?”Īnd he meekly takes the gruff threats of Kike when the two sons show up to try and get the old man to sign off on their plans. He not only knows who Antonio is - he jokingly calls him “mayor” - he has an idea of why he’s there. He gives nothing away when his infamous new patient shows up. He’s good with patients, happy that he and his wife Julia ( María Vázquez) are expecting their first child. That’s where Mario ( Luis Tosar) is head nurse. When he’s out the enfeebled old man wants to live in the state nursing home. And he wants nothing to do with his family, either. He wants nothing to do with a deal that includes the murderous Colombians and Chinese dealers he knows nothing about. Old Antonio ( Xan Cejudo) is in prison, about to get out. It’s just that ruthless Toño ( Ismael Martínez) and hotheaded Kike ( Enric Auquer) can’t get their old man to sign off on it. The Padín brothers are heirs to an empire that includes seafood fishing, processing and restaurants - and drugs. And it’s about drugs, double-crosses and a thirst for revenge that lingers for years and years. It’s about a crime family in Cambadoas, in Spanish Galicia, the northwest coast of the country facing the harsh Atlantic. ![]() A simple, downbeat and taut-as-a-drum vengeance thriller, “Eye for an Eye”(Quien a hierro mata) lives up to the promise of its simple, evocative title.
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