I missed the sound of swords clanging and the sound of horses and hooves. First, I loved seeing a medieval-sword & shield movie on the big screen. I can say, 'Good performances by Driver and Comer', or, 'the final act was excellent', but by the end the movie was so 'in your face' (as they say) that it left minimal impression to me besides a silent respect for a movie well crafted. The second one is that I find that I don't have much to discuss about the movie. My two problems with the film are (one is a nitpick) that it's a movie set in France there's no hint of French accent, to me it's kinda important because if not for the French names or the French title locations, I easily forgot were we are. It's one of Scott's better films of the last years, with good story, great performances and as the film was reaching its climax I was getting more and more invested. In a family where personal secrets hold them together, Larraz returns to his chilly countryside backdrop to touch on the recurring theme of abuse taking place in the outdoors when Loli is attempting to return from her secret escapade, which Larraz breaks with close-ups on Loli's face and bruised legs,that brings out a new level of compassionate family support in elegant dissolves over Piedad.Saw the film at the Athens International Film Festival. Larraz holds the ghostly memory of the father to hang over the isolated family home/mansion,as Larraz stylishly hovers the camera above all the surviving family members who can't free themselves from the long shadow of the past hanging over them. View on the film: Starting a occasional partnership that would last until the Goya (1985) TV mini-series, writer/directing auteur Jose Ramon Larraz & cinematographer Fernando Arribas twirl the motifs and themes displayed in the surrealist Horror stylisation they later gave The Coming of Sin, (1978-also reviewed) into a fantastic,brooding Gothic Drama atmosphere. Being lucky to find one of these titles with English subtitles,I decided to fill in a gap. After seeing a work of his from the Arrow set, I checked his credits,and was surprised to find that along with his last movie, there appeared to be no print of El fin de la inocencia (1977) around,and whilst it has been reviewed on other sites, nothing on this site for Luto riguroso (1977). In the last remaining hours of the Cinema of Spain viewing challenge on ICM,I wanted the final viewing to be something a bit special.

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