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FILM COMMENT
November/December 2002
JOURNAL: MADRID
above: city of no limits
Spanish cinema is both a promised land - forever out of reach - and a familiar homeland afflicted by an endemic malaise that's never completely cured. Álvaro Del Amo takes the sick man that is Spanish cinema to the operating room. The prognosis? He'll live.
You can read the complete version of this article in the November/December print edition of Film Comment.