LA ESTANQUERA DE VALLECAS
(THE TOBACCONIST OF VALLECAS)
dir. Eloy de la Iglesia, 1987
106 min. Spain.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
SUNDAY, MAY 7 – 5 PM
MONDAY, MAY 22 – 10 PM
“Two delinquents from three to a quarter enter to rob a tobacco store in an emerging neighborhood of a big city, and, given the resistance of the tobacconist to their threats, she and her niece are taken hostage, which provokes the presence of the police and the pressure to turn themselves in. What in principle had to produce rejection, generates affection and what more had to separate aggressors and attacked, unites them”
— José Luis Alonso de Santos, Author of the play the film is based on.