‘Blackout’, the series that Movistar Plus+ fully premieres this Thursday, contains no more special effects than the Northern Lights anticipating the solar storm that leaves Spain without electricity
The end of the world may come, but life goes on. And a currela from the civil defense center in Madrid would have his ass out, but he’d go downstairs for a coffee and a pincho de tortilla, something we wouldn’t see in a Morgan Freeman movie in front of a wall of monitors. broadcast of the apocalypse. ‘Blackout’, the series that Movistar Plus+ premieres this Thursday, contains no more special effects than the Northern Lights anticipating the solar storm that leaves Spain without power. It’s catastrophe cinema, yes, but there’s no epic music or redeeming speeches.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodríguez, Raúl Arévalo and Isaki Lacuesta direct five interconnected episodes of approximately 50 minutes each. They take place in different phases of the blackout, from the cell phones shutting down and pumping gasoline to the men fighting each other for food. Sorogoyen embroiders a tension exercise that gets on your nerves, with the great Luis Callejo as the protagonist. Raúl Arévalo takes us back to the worst days of the pandemic, with triage in hospitals and overcrowded toilets. They just don’t even have meds now. Isa Campo tells a story of prejudice and classism in one of those bubble neighborhoods on the outskirts of big cities.
The two most round episodes are autographed by Alberto Rodríguez and Isaki Lacuesta. The first hero has a goatherd trying to escape the worst predator: a hungry man. The second takes an urbanite to the countryside – the big theme of Spanish cinema at the recent San Sebastian Festival – to discover that another life is possible with companions as unexpected as emigrants. Catastrophe as opportunity.
Source: La Verdad
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