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The movie is one of the largest and best examples of passionate film, absorbent and claustrophobic characteristic of majorcan filmmaker Agusti Villaronga.
"The Sea", the sea as a symbol, dive into the subconscious, as a liberator of repressed emotions as a link with the most vivid memories of the past. In this case, the past of a young boy during the Spanish Civil War, which witnessed great acts of violence, along with other playmates, in a village on the island of Mallorca.
From this war prologue, the story reunites the three main characters, as in his youth, in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Here it is evident that Spanish society has changed. A pervasive religion has shaped the character of two of the protagonists to the point of making the only female character in nun nurse. The three will develop a passion seized spiral. Here it is fair to make special mention to the remarkable performance of these young actors, all newcomers, well seconded by the likes of veteran Juli Mira or Simon Andreu.
No lack of homosexual allusions, one more feature, internal drives, sooner or later, eventually burst. Emotional stories anything but complacent, tortuous and full of edges, which also recreates some morbidity in some other sequence. Perhaps the only excess film, an excess of hemoglobin towards the end thereof. But this is the work of this cinema director unjustly little known, with a theme and a very personal language and a style as distinctive as suggestive.
7/10
