Boyero’s criticism of ‘A ghost in battle’: “There is an author making real cinema. Or at least, the one I like” | Cinema: premieres and criticism

Agustín Díaz Yanes’ last film, A ghost in battle, He has convinced El País critic, Carlos Boyero. In this film, an infiltrated ETA is resorted to again, in this case a civil guard, something he already did in his day The infiltrated of Arantxa Echevarría. “I ignore who came up first,” says the expert in his review. In its assessment also considers that the one that opens now takes you further and stands out especially to its author: “I think it is a complex script, a powerful direction, the evidence that there is an author making real cinema. Or at least, the one that I like.”

The critic ensures that he is involved in the plot and expectant throughout the film and qualifies this as a “sense and very professional” work. Work of a director who, he says, had already moved “even the deepest” with No one will talk about us when we have dead: “Díaz Yanes has always put dedication to actresses. “And precisely, the critic also highlights the role of the latter:” Susana Abaitua is so sober as expressive, combining security and fear. And what musqueo and tremor Iraia Elias and Ariadna Gil “.

“The subject, despite its similarity, gives for many films. And the public, massive in the case of The infiltratedit will be appreciated with interest something that happened here and then, knowing that 10 years ago the joyful end of a barbarism that seemed eternal, “says Boyero.

(Read here Carlos Boyero’s complete criticism: A ghost in battle. And here, the criticisms of the films that are released this week)