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Wikipedia article
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'What Luca Saw' (; ) is a 2022 Spanish-Colombian drama film directed by Imanol Uribe which stars Juana Acosta, Juan Carlos Martnez, Carmelo Gmez and Karra Elejalde. It is a dramatization of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador by the Salvadoran Army.
Plot
The plot follows the Central American University's cleaning staff Luca Barrera de Cerna, a witness of the massacre of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador by the Salvadoran Army, who stood up for truth and refused to cover up the responsibility of the military with the fake attribution of the crime to the FMLN guerrilla by the Salvadoran government, in the midst of the Salvadoran Civil War.
Cast
Production
The film was originally known as early in the production stage. The screenplay was penned by Daniel Cebrin. The film was produced by Bowfinger International Pictures, Tornasol Media and Nunca digas nunca AIE alongside 64A Films, and it had the participation of RTVE and Movistar+ and support from ICAA, the Ibermedia programme and ICO. Shooting began by November 2020 in Navarre. It later moved to Colombia, shooting in Valle del Cauca in between Cali and Buga.
Release
The film was presented on 21 March 2022 at the 25th Mlaga Film Festival, as part of the festival's main competition. Distributed by Karma Films, it opened in Spanish theatres on 25 March 2022.
Reception
Sergio F. Pinilla of 'Cinemana' rated the film with 4 out of 5 stars, underscoring that Acosta shines in Uribe's return to political thriller.
Juan Pando of 'Fotogramas' gave it 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting "the innocence of the protagonist in the face of the surrounding horror", while considering that the negative characters were not sufficiently humanised as a drawback.
Manuel J. Lombardo of 'Diario de Sevilla' gave a negative review and 2 stars, deeming the film, weighed down by several bad decisions, to be a "discursive, superficial, leaden work", "with no real context, political bite nor dramatic tension".
Jonathan Holland of 'ScreenDaily' deemed 'What Luca Saw' to be a "well-intentioned but uneven" film, pointing out that some people will wonder "how it is possible to extract so little tension from such a subject".
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2022
References
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