"La isla mínima"

One month ago I saw a film that I really liked. I'm talking about La isla minima. This film was shoot in Spain and was directed by Alberto Rodríguez. I decided to watch it because it was recomended to me by someone who knows a lot about cinema. I just saw the film the day before Los Goya, where the film triumph and it can give ten prizes including the important as the best film, the best director, the best script and the award for the best actor. 

La isla minima is set in 80s Sapain, just after the Franco era and the step to the democratic transition. Juan and Pedro are two homicide cops from Madrid. They both are ideologically opposed and have different methods to do the things. They both are punishe to go to a forgotten town in the middle of the Marismas del Guadalquivir to investigate and solve the disappearance  and the murder of two teenagers sisters during the town festival. 

All the young people from the town want to leve the field where they live and go to de city to find a job. In the village there are some strike that threatening the rice harvest and it dificult the investigattion. While Juan and Pedro are trying to solve the case they discovered that there are more girls missing and there are a huge trafficking of drugs. 

Juan and Pedro should work together if they want to solve this strange case that is not normal in a village like this. Their methods every time would be more similar and they both will be face their past, their present and their future because the only thing that is important is resolve the terrible murder.  

The place, the actors, the music, every scene, the setting... all is good in this film!

I really like the film and I enjoyed it a lot. It is a police thriller that keeps you in tension during the 105 minutes that it takes. I consider that one of the most important things of the film is the place where it take places. The Marismas del Guadalquivir is a very nice place but when you transform it in the place where some horrible facts have took place, it's the perfect site and it becomes a lonely, empty and full of secrets and mysteries place.

The film is very, very, very good setting on the time. All the characters and costumes are interpreted in a perfection way. And this is an important fact that gives more credibility to all the movie. All happens in a time when in Spain there was a very big and important change: the coutry went from a dictatorship to a democracy. And it is also refelct in the main characters Juan and Pedro. They are two police that have a very different way to think, differents past and, for that, a different methods. All this differences are discovered and they create distrust in the other. But at the end the only thing that have importance is resolve the case. 

I would like to coment one fact that is show in the film very well and it is important to undertand all the crime. I'm refering to the necessity of the women of the era to scap from the rural area and go to the big citys to have the possibility to be someone and running away from a place that nobody cares about them. 

Finally I think that the only thing I left to say is that you will do very well in watch this film. I recommend it and I hope you will like as much as it liked to me.