A huge hit in its native Spain, actress-turned-writer-director Iciar Bollain's harrowing, psychologically astute drama about domestic abuse in Toledo opens with a bang: Pilar (the astonishing Laia Marull) wakes her sleeping son, Juan (Nicolas Fernandez Luna), packs a bag, and, without so much as changing out of her slippers, flees into the night. She's on the run from her abusive husband, Antonio (Luis Tosar), and takes refuge with her sister, Ana (Candela Pena), and Ana's Scottish fiancé, John (Dave Mooney). Ana tells Pilar that she's welcome to stay as long as she needs to, and even offers to help her get a job at Santo Tome, the 15th-century church famous for El G...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
106 mins