The Sea

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Joan P R @JoanPR 01/23/2016 A little too deppressing, but also very engaging, it really is a study of how the trauma of the civil war in Majorca, where neighbours in opposing sides killed each other, fatally traumatizes a group of children, so that years later, and despite varios effort to esacape - via religion, criminality and sex - they end up re-enacting the violence. It captures the oppressive conditions in post-war Francoist society, with a very good sense of the local atmosphere when Majorca was still very rural and isolated (unfortunately I only saw the dubbed version in Spanish, rather than the original Catalan, and this took away much of the film's authenticity). It is good to shake some tabus (the way the war divided people, reppressed homosexuality...) but, in my view, it need not have ended up with so much blood. See more 10/06/2012 A violent & disturbing love story to say the least. See more 01/04/2012 Apparently this film caused quite a stir. Can't imagine why. See more 07/07/2011 Rather rough, average though. See more 07/07/2011 Sans doute un des films les plus sombres et désespérés que j'ai vu. Je ne le conseille à personne même si le tout est très bien écrit et que les personnages sont intéressants. See more 07/17/2010 Twisted tale of religion and sex mixed together. Dont wait for a happy Hollywood end in this one... See more Read all reviews

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