In a Glass Cage (1986)
Dec 12, 2023Nazi War Criminal
The original Apt Pupil, an extraordinary study in cruelty about a bedridden Nazi war criminal and the way his past cruelties influence a teenage boy
Marisa Paredes
The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Nov 30, 2001Spanish Civil War Ghost Story
One of Guillermo Del Toro earliest films - a ghost story set at an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Eerie supernatural scenes sit alongside a surprisingly rich swim of symbolism
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Oct 9, 2011Mad Surgeon and His Woman Prisoner
Pedro Almodovar's exquisitely lush homage to the mad surgeon fiilm Eyes Without a Face features a superb left field twist to become an extraordinary meditation on gender and identity