The highest praise of the kinomatra Tarantino (Maestromoved to tears) was awarded the film “A Sad Melody for Trumpet,” directed by Alex de la Iglesia. It costs very, very expensive. However, the 2013 Witch of Sugarramurdi film is not inferior to him in quality — a slaughter cocktail of irony, trash, road movie, criminal action movie about robbery, with a drop of feminism and obscene humor — a very fresh creation of the Spaniard. Dressed up like an idiot (which is worth only a character depicting the Savior himself), apparently, not very experienced robbers try to clean the pawnshop. The presence of the “in practice” of a young son (well, there was no one to leave the boy at home) adds to the absurdity of the situation. And now the policemen are “on the tail,” a mini-gang hijacks a car (along with the driver-taxi driver and the wrong passenger at the wrong time, who is “packed” in the trunk so as not to hear his chatter and shouts) and rushes to state border. What they are going to do at the border is not clear, especially since their goal is no more, no less - the capital of France and Disneyland, where the youngest member of the gang wants to go. On the way, the heroes end up in a strange little town ... This is how the film “The Witches from Sugarramurdi” begins, and almost all the female faces shown in it are the witches, including the one in charge of the runaways (like a real witch on a broomstick) .
The film "The Witches of Sugarramurdi" reviews from the publicgathered the most positive. Largely due to the gothic irrational atmosphere, a bitter plot and, of course, the cast. The main male roles of José and Tony, the director, gave to Hugo Silva ("lit up" in the recent recent thriller of the Spanish production "The Body") and the pretty girl Mario Casas, who suffer from crowds of fans of the cult dilogy "Three meters above the sky". Well, and the female characters with a magical gift are generally worth only applause (like the already mentioned spouse of one of the bandits performed by Macarena Gomez who joined them). A separate ode is worthy of the charm of Karolina Bang (charming Eve) and, of course, timeless charm, which personifies Carmen Maura (devil of Gratian). The film “The Witches from Sugarramurdi”, reviews of which are extremely controversial, was appreciated by critics of various sizes according to merit. Among other things, a wonderful cast has received more than one award. The special effects for which the film “The Witches of Sugarramurdi” is rich are remarkable and unusual. Reviews about them most often mention the walking of one of the Sabbath participants on the ceiling in order to fix the chandelier.
On real events
Film production in recent years is not so generousstories about witches. Sisters performed by Bullock and Kidman (“Practical Magic”), half-childish, but funny “Hocus Pocus”, thrash horror movie of Rob Zombie with sickening aunts (“The Lords of Salem”) immediately come to mind. Perhaps, there are also mentions of the telescope about Sabrina and the Sisters of “Charmed” and the earlier series, about the retro-American wife-witch. The work of the Spanish master took a worthy and honorable place at the top of the rating of such works. The plot, by the way, was not taken by the Spaniard "from the ceiling," in Sugarramurdi, and indeed in ancient times judged those suspected of collusion with evil forces. It turns out that the film “Witches from Sugarramurdi” is based on real events, the reviews about which critics of different countries leave mostly positive.
