The 7th Day (2004) ( El 7º día ) ( The Seventh Day )

The 7th Day (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El 7º día
Alternate Title: The Seventh Day
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Butaca Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Goya Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Carlos Saura

Written By:
Ray Loriga

Actors:
Juan Diego ..... Antonio
José Luis Gómez ..... Emilio
José Garcia ..... José
Victoria Abril ..... Luciana
Yohana Cobo ..... Isabel
Eulalia Ramón ..... Carmen
Ramón Fontserè ..... Jerónimo
Carlos Hipólito ..... El Tonto
Oriol Vila ..... Chino
Ana Wagener ..... Ángela
Juan Sanz ..... Amadeo
Elia Galera ..... Clara
Carlos Caniowski ..... Raúl
Antonio de la Torre ..... Cabo
Joaquín Notario ..... Sargento

Synopsis:

In a small Spanish village, the hatred of a decades-long feud between the Jiménez and Fuentes families, that began with the murder of Amadeo Jiménez (Juan Sanz) at the hands of Jerónimo Fuentes (Ramon Fontserè), still lingers. Years later, Jerónimo has served his prison sentence but immediately attacks Amadeo's brother, José (José Garcia), upon release. Unaware of the feud's full history, José's eldest daughter, Isabel (Yohana Cobo), is determined to find the truth behind these violent events.

On an isolated pueblo in the heart of the Spanish countryside, the seemingly familiar story of fickle young love unravels to incomprehensible tragedy when the spurned lover, Luciana Fuentes, expresses a vengeful wish on her seducer in the presence of her fragmented, devoted brother Jerónimo who, in turn, executes his sister's wish, resulting in the young man's cold and brutal murder in an open field. Despite Jerónimo's capture and 30-year prison sentence, the shame on the Fuentes family still proves to be terrible burden as the townspeople continue to treat the siblings with open contempt and derision, culminating one day in a suspicious fire that engulfs the family home and escalates the deeply entrenched family feud. Publicly humiliated, forcibly driven out of town, and struggling with Luciana's delusional obsession over her broken engagement, the family's harbored animosity festers with each passing year, awaiting Jerónimo's release and pondering the inevitable day of reckoning against the community that had turned its back against them. From Isabel's retrospective opening monologue to the intimately captured innocence of the children's world, Carlos Saura evokes the provocative and trenchant social observation and disquieting mystery of his seminal film, Cría Cuervos while retaining the musicality and immersive passion of his later, cultural expositions to create a haunting and indelible work. Through the introduction of the slow-witted, drug-addicted witness - the child of an incestuous relationship - Saura illustrates an intrinsic parallel to the town's oppressive isolation and complicity that contributed to the perpetuation of the communal tragedy. Based on a true incident in 1992, the film is a thoughtful, potent, and incisive examination on the insidious nature of collective exclusion, intolerance, implicit collusion, systematic demoralization, and consuming vengeance.

In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 June, 2010.

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