A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell". Detective Pepe Carvalho is put in charge of the case, taking him from the back streets of Barcelona to the Amsterdam canals, with no effect whatsoever on his peculiar investigation methods.
Direction
Luna's fetishistic close-ups of food, flesh, and furniture.
Cinematography
Gritty Barcelona backstreets meet sleazy Amsterdam canals.
Director
Bigas Luna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's novel, but Luna stripped out most of the political commentary to focus on... well, other things.
Part of Spain's 'Transition' cinema, using genre trappings to process post-Franco anxiety while audiences pretended they were just watching thrillers.
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