Fito (Juan Sanz) is a poker addict truck driver and labor problems that his wife Juana (Zay Nuba) tries to overcome. A day will come Pedro (Jose Coronado), the brother Fito, absent from his life for 13 years.
Acting
José Coronado's menacing charisma steals every scene.
Direction
Urbizu's unflinching eye for Madrid's industrial outskirts.
Director
Enrique Urbizu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Enrique Urbizu and José Coronado had previously collaborated on 'Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento' (1991), making this a reunion of Spanish cinema's most unflinching chroniclers of masculine failure.
The film captures early-2000s Spain's precarious working class just before the economic crash—Fito's truck driver anxiety now reads as prophecy.
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