Barely a few minutes into the HBO MAX series
30 Coins, viewers have already witnessed a cow giving birth to a human baby. Clearly, something is afoot in this eight-episode show about malevolent Christian forces trying to take control of a remote Spanish town, and eventually even the Vatican itself. Christian mythology meets Lovecraftian terror in the latest genre-bending, endlessly entertaining effort from iconoclast Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia. It’s a series of many treasures.
De la Iglesia has been churning out cult genre films for almost 30 years, from his 1993 science fiction comedy debut
Mutant Action to his claustrophobic 2017 thriller
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With a storyline penned by the helmer together with his regular co-writer,
Jorge Guerricaechevarría, the feature tells of how Julián (San Juan), a divorced 50-year-old man with money problems, resorts to using an app to share his car with strangers and, in particular, with someone who is not such a stranger any more: Lorena (Suárez), a young woman who travels to Madrid on a regular basis. For the last few months, he’s kept a permanent place for her in his car and, lately, also in his heart, and now he wants to take advantage of the next journey to confess his feelings to her. However, he makes a mistake when choosing the remaining occupants (Alterio and Cortada) and takes on an unsettling passenger, who will spark a dramatic change in the course of events.
Cintia García (Lina), all of whom are members of El Zarco’s gang.
“Ever since I read the book
Outlaws, my recollections of it have stayed with me for almost seven years, a period of time that has enabled me to mull over how to tackle the big-screen adaptation in different ways and from different standpoints, and it has finally materialised as the version that we’ve shot. The beautiful love triangle between Tere, Nacho and El Zarco – during the turbulent years of the transition to democracy, with all its potential for telling tales of adventure, unfurling an unadulterated thriller and romantically recreating that universe of small-time delinquency – whisked me away to a fascinating world, thanks to the distance afforded by the present day. Now the moment has come to bring the journey to a conclusion so that the viewer can come along for the ride and live through it with the same degree of intensity that we experienced it with,” explained Monzón, who is fascinated by
film profile] was shot in September 2019 (see the news), enjoyed its premiere during the first weekend of the Málaga Film Festival (in August last year) and was released in Spanish cinemas in December, on the eve of the Christmas festivities, after various delays brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Directed by
Daniel Calparsoro and with a screenplay penned by the man who writes (virtually) all action films in Spain, Jorge GuerricaechevarrÃa (his fourth partnership with another Daniel, this time Monzón, is currently in the pipeline â see the news), the feature starring
Miguel Herrán, Asia Ortega and
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