A cop wakes up hungover, covered in someone else's blood, and can't remember if he killed a man.
The film tells the obsession of a policeman to find out who is the murderer of a young homosexual. The character played by Antonio Resines, is a cop who gets up in a strange house with a huge hangover and has no memory of what he did last night, when the homosexual was killed. He is the prime suspect.
Acting
Resines commits to sweaty, desperate unraveling.
Direction
Marías builds queasy dread from simple spaces.
Director
Luis Marías
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's post-Franco sexual liberation, yet treats gay identity as violent pathology—reflecting lingering conservative anxieties of the era.
Resines reportedly insisted on doing his own staggering-through-barcelona scenes genuinely hungover for 'authenticity.'
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