Madrid 1987 movie english subtitles5/26/2023 On the other, it’s about how easy it is to strip people down to their core, and how relieved they’ll be if you do. On the one hand, this is an allegory about generational misunderstanding set at a moment when Spain was still emerging from the shadows of the Franco dictatorship. Everything is mildly sooty, as if the camera lens needed a wipe. Angela - in Miguel’s mind just a target - is soft but not pliant, largely letting Miguel fill the air with lectures and, eventually, regrets. That’s how they remain for most of the film (covering about a day’s worth of action) with one towel and boatloads of mutual suspicion between them. But Miguel is lovably smug: when an autograph seeker interrupts his squiring of Angela (María Valverde), he signs her paper, “For Sonia, who has lousy timing.” Before long, he and Angela retreat to an apartment nearby, where the faulty door traps them in the bathroom, disrobed but not entangled. Sacristán gives him equal measures of confidence and tediousness. Miguel (José Sacristán) has been spouting literary analogies and trite aphorisms long enough that he believes them Mr. That comes in the form of a would-be acolyte, Angela, and a malfunctioning door lock in this sweet, sometimes dull and certainly overlong film, written and directed by David Trueba. Pompous, calloused, dismissive, he’s a parade float begging for a hole to be poked in it. Miguel, the arrogant newspaper columnist at the center of “Madrid, 1987,” has spent decades building up a tough outer shell.
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