Maixabel (2021)

Directed by

Icíar Bollaín

Genre

drama film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

12

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 134 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet the people who murdered her husband when they ask to talk with her. The film shows her personal process of confronting loss and deciding whether to engage with their request for dialogue.

somberintimateemotionalrestrainedreflectivethoughtfulhumanizingrawquietly intense

What happens

Maixabel (Basque pronunciation: [mai'ʃaβel]) is a 2021 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and co-written by Bollaín and Isa Campo. The film stars Blanca Portillo and Luis Tosar alongside Bruno Sevilla, Urko Olazabal and María Cerezuela and is based on the true story of Maixabel Lasa, a woman whose husband, Juan María Jáuregui, was killed by ETA, a Basque separatist group, and who receives an invitation to talk with the killers of her husband eleven years after. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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