Torrential rains cause the swollen river, whose waters inundate a village. The current drags the cow Crebinsky and his brothers, who miraculously reappear alive in a place on the coast. Installed there at the foot of a lighthouse, which brings survive by sea. Isolated military conflicts, the brothers created their own world: a particular universe made of realism and fantasy.
Acting
De Lira and Zearreta's feral, tender brotherhood
Cinematography
Misty Galician coast as character, not backdrop
Production
Lighthouse microcosm built with obsessive detail
Director
Enrique Otero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in Costa da Morte, Galicia—a region so named for its shipwreck history, which the film weaponizes for atmosphere.
Part of a 2000s Spanish wave of 'rural grotesque' cinema, using forgotten corners of Spain to process national trauma through absurdism.
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