‘Golpes’, a story of brothers that combines quinqui cinema and memory with Tosar as the protagonist

Valladolid, Oct 26 (EFE).- The 70th Valladolid International Film Week has premiered this Sunday ‘Golpes’, by Sevillian Rafael Cobos (1973), a film that combines quinqui cinema and democratic memory in a story of two opposing brothers that, in the words of actor Luis Tosar, “is still the history of this country.”

“On the issue of historical memory, this country is always permanently divided in two and in general it is a story of brothers, always one against the other, because in the end all these conflicts occur in the family,” said the interpreter during the presentation press conference at the Calderón Theater in Valladolid.

‘Golpes’ tells the story of the bank robber Migueli (Carroza) and the policeman Sabino (Tosar), two antithetical brothers marked by orphanhood and the aftermath of the post-war period who find themselves in Seville in the autumn of 1982, a city in which they filmed for seven weeks and which uses archive images to complete the portrait of the Seville capital from forty years ago.

“And at the end of the day, we don’t stop living in a country that has been completely closed off by its environment for 40 years and, suddenly, another world appeared that didn’t have much to do with what all these people had experienced,” Tosar explained.

unanswered questions

Rafael Cobos – playwright and screenwriter, who won two Goya awards for best script for ‘La isla minima’ (2014) and ‘El hombre de las mil caras’ (2016) – is behind the camera for the first time in a film that competes in the Official Selection and is also up for the Pilar Miró award for best direction.

Cobos has justified the development of this film in that “the consequences of the Transition are not very well known and those questions that arose at that time were never fully answered”, a binomial – that of the adventure of the quinqui genre and the solemnity of dealing with the first years of Spanish democracy – that he discovered during the writing process.

This 102-minute Spanish-French production also features electronic and synthesizer music by the artist Bronquio, a bet that the filmmaker himself acknowledges is “going against the grain” and has sought to give a different feel to a genre like the police crime.

In addition to Tosar, who has acknowledged that the character of Sabino has reminded him of his father, not only because of the physical part but because “they were good men who lived through the Transition but brought a backpack full of stones”, the main cast is made up of Jesús Carroza, Goya for best new actor for ‘7 vírgenes’ (2006), and Teresa Garzón, two wounded characters who use violence to survive.EFE

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