Friday 14 January 2011

The Night of the Sunflowers

2006 Director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo


This film explores the idea that the truth is never as simple as at first appears. Castilla-León is a dying rural village in the middle of nowhere. Told from six different perspectives the story unfolds with the discovery of a cave near the village. Cave explorers arrive to document the find and there is much speculation that this will put the village back on the map and bring much needed visitors. But emerging from the cave they discover that a girl has been assaulted. This sparks a violent revenge mission that sets into motion a tragic series of events in the impoverished local communities.

Each chapter overlaps the previous and is told from a completely different perspective drawing the viewer to empathise with the current character so thoroughly that all their actions appear completely logical, given the circumstances.

Beautifully shot in a captivating landscape its a very watchable film.

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