I've recenlty watched another excellent Spanish film, Adiós/Bye. I've previously praised Spanish Cinema multiple times, and this is one of the best examples of its excellence in these last years.
Adios is raw and intense, sad, social... and many more adjectives, thriller/police film. It's a combination of dramas: the drama of losing a loved one, the drama of having been born in the wrong place, the drama of poverty and drugs addiction... the drama of not being able to trust those that are supposed to protect you...
The film is set in Las 3000 viviendas, and infaumous marginal area of the city of Seville. The ultra-violent images of the police intervention (I'm not talking about "police violence", but about the violence from the inhabitants) remind me a lot of French "territoires perdus - quartiers sensibles", you just have to replace gipsy criminals by maghrebian criminals... and the images of the "hotelito", a ruined building where drug addicts rot their lives away are really extreme (I guess the La colline du Crack in Paris is not much different)
There are profoundly dark sections, both in the story and in the visuals, a trip to some of the worst aspects of our society. One can trace some similarities (not only because it shares 2 actors) with Malaka, an excellent Spanish series set in La Palma/Palmilla, a deeply marginal are of Malaga. I absolutely reccommned it too.
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