Academy Awards, USA 1998
| Nominated Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film
Spain.
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Alta Films (Spain)
Directed by Montxo Armendáriz
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Yorker)
Two young brothers living with an aunt visit their estranged mother in the city. In a closed room they are forbidden to enter is a blood-stained chair where their father committed suicide. An "uncle" visits mom in the middle of the night. Their grandfather sits mostly silently but occasionally speaks up to make insightful comments. Mostly, though, the youngest boy is concerned with finding out what "humping" means, much to the delight of his older brother who torments him about it. There is a gratuitous dog sex scene. An episodic film obsessed with the more puerile aspects of childhood.
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