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Staring at Strangers

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Damian has just been fired after working at the same company for 20 years. Following an angry and violent reaction, he runs away from his boss and hides in the first place he can find: a wardrobe loaded on a van. But the wardrobe, with Damian inside, is then delivered to Lucia and Fede, a couple of his age living with their adolescent daughter, Maria. That same night, a sudden impulse leads Damian to stay with the family and become a mysterious presence, observing and moving around in the shadows

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Andrea G. Bermejo Cinemanía (Spain) 01/20/2023
4/5
An interesting portrait of the loneliness and alienation that certain mothers or wives can suffer at a certain moment in family life. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Carlos Boyero El Pais (Spain) 11/07/2022
There's a mystery. Also, tenderness. And compassion. Vitality overcomes the absurdity of the film's opening. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Beatriz Martínez Fotogramas 11/07/2022
4/5
Viscarret adapts Juan José Millás' novel and composes a very uncomfortable story about lack of communication and its monsters, of loneliness as an endemic evil... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Félix Viscarret

Director

Paco León

Actor

Leonor Watling

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Alex Brendemühl

Actor

María Romanillos

Actor

Juan Diego Botto

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Synopsis Damian has just been fired after working at the same company for 20 years. Following an angry and violent reaction, he runs away from his boss and hides in the first place he can find: a wardrobe loaded on a van. But the wardrobe, with Damian inside, is then delivered to Lucia and Fede, a couple of his age living with their adolescent daughter, Maria. That same night, a sudden impulse leads Damian to stay with the family and become a mysterious presence, observing and moving around in the shadows
Director
Félix Viscarret
Screenwriter
Félix Viscarret, David Muñoz
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 47m