The Bastards' Fig Tree

Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: May 10, 2019

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blogmediaMay 15, 2019

"The Spanish Civil War has had many a cinematic treatment: 1937's The Last Train From Madrid, 1943's For Whom The Bell Tolls (based on Hemingway's novel about the war), all the way to Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's"The Spanish Civil War has had many a cinematic treatment: 1937's The Last Train From Madrid, 1943's For Whom The Bell Tolls (based on Hemingway's novel about the war), all the way to Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth (2001 and 2006 respectively) We now have a boldly creative new entry in the list in the form of The Bastards' Fig Tree (La higuera de los bastardos) starring Karra Elejalde. Holding its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest this fall, Ana Murugarren's genre-meshing masterpiece provides a fresh, magical exploration of the horrors of the War, showing both the brutality and its tendency to inspire hope and change in a broken society, a message that could be even timelier with the recent rise of the far right seemingly worldwide. Fascism has not died: it's just changed its colors." Wess Haubrich (The 401)… Expand

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