Writer in need of money returns to his hometown to try to write a new book. But his addiction to alcohol causes strange dreams that take him 50 years back to a Mardi Gras tuesday, when he was a teenager.
Direction
Dual directors create genuinely disorienting temporal shifts
Costume
Peliqueiro masks are genuinely unsettling folk horror imagery
Acting
Fernando Guillén's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably real
Director
Fernando Bauluz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The peliqueiro masks are traditional Galician carnival figures from Laza, still used in real celebrations today.
This belongs to Spain's 'cine de terror autóctono' movement — rural folk horror examining repressed provincial identity under democracy.
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