The disappearance as a metaphor

Two thrillers where the investigation ends up revealing a ghost. Two great examples of the fusion between typically Spanish imaginary with narratives from American black cinema. Both films are based on the figure of the disappeared person (a clear metaphor for the absence of values) to show unstructured families that various economic crises have passed over. The police narrative increases this notion of structural poverty, by transferring the possibility of completing the puzzle pieces to the viewer.

La propera pell starts from an undeniable reality: the real police scene in Spain is a rural environment. It is in those scenarios where the quarrels, the silences, the secrets and the past are kept year after year, and where all this can detonate a great explosion at any moment. This film starts from this premise and shows how a disappearance entails the solitude of the one who stays, and that the place to which he returns never remains the same as when you left it.

The red fish may be the top of the Spanish police cinema. It is an atypical thriller, without violence, without action, but with suspense. A film halfway between psychological drama and suspense, composed of a fatal triangle created by the existence of a son always off the field, a cabaret that aspires to a better life, and a man who is torn between the cold calculation and overflowing passion.