The Fire Is Coming

Olivier Laxe
Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Alvaro de Bazal, Elena Mar Fernández, Inazio Abrao, Luis Manuel Guerrero Sánchez, Rubén Gómez Coelho, David de Peso, Nando Vázquez, Nuria Sotelo, Ivan Yañez
2019
Spain, France, Luxembourg
Completed
Galician, Spanish
86 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asO que arde,is aSpain, France, LuxembourgProducerwomen sex,At2019Released in year
。The dialogue language isGalician, Spanish,Current Douban rating6.9(For reference only)。
Accused of arson, Amador has been released from prison, but no one is waiting for him. He returns to his hometown, a village deep in the mountains of Galicia, where forest fires occur most frequently across Europe, to live with his eighty-three-year-old mother and three dairy cows. After experiencing the damp, cold, and gloomy winter, Amador lives slowly following the rhythm of nature, as his once-dry life gradually unfurls in the spring breeze and summer sun, until the rampant deforestation draws ever closer and the raging fires spread across the mountains once more… Director Oliver Laxe returns to the Spanish mountain village of his childhood to complete this fate-filled poem that spans the four seasons. Starring familiar local non-professionals and incorporating ritualistic camera movements and the texture of over sixteen-millimeter film, he gazes at the landscape he describes as "extremely beautiful, with high contrast and unpredictable," a peaceful yet powerful energy converging in the silence. The purity and suspicion of humanity, the cycles and extinctions of nature, and the insignificance and impermanence of life all erupt with searing heat amid the overwhelming and blazing flames. The visual strength rivals that of Béla Tarr and Tarkovsky.