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The Holy Innocents

Los santos inocentes

1984

Mario Camus

Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Juan Diego, Terele Pávez ...

8.1

45,294

Drama In the 60s, somewhere in the Spanish countryside, Paco and his wife Régula are poor. Their lives are resignation, sacrifice and obedience as they work for a very wealthy landowner. Their fates are marked unless some unexpected event frees them.

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[Camus] captures both the hardship and the richness that characterize the lives of these workers (...) 'The Holy Innocents' is acted in a plain, utterly convincing style"	POS
United Kingdom	Wally Hammond Time Out	"A moving and mournful valediction to an unforgotten and unforgiven past."	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"[It] is at once an irresistible family saga and a corrosive, gratifying social satire set against Franco’s Spain of the 1960s."	POS
United States	Larry Kart Chicago Tribune	"The film explores the ['shocking and barbaric practices' of the Spanish nobility] with such intensity and dramatic power that it becomes much more than a case for the prosecution (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[It has] surprisingly sharp moments of emotional and physical cruelty. But if the film ultimately underwhelms, it's because it (...) [assigns] moral worthiness and psychological complexity purely on the basis of the characters' class alliances"	NEU

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