Peterborough Arts Cinema: Marshlands

The genius of Marshland, Alberto Rodríguez’s serpentine Spanish crime drama, is to be found in its period setting, between the death of Franco in 1975 and the landslide election of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in 1982, which solidified the newly democratic state. We are in La Transición. Everything is either dying slowly or taking a long time getting born; in the interim, strange bedfellows are popping up everywhere. The mismatched-cops archetype that underpins Marshland is hugely enriched by the ideological opposition between sour leftwing idealist Pedro (Raúl Arévalo) and cynical, ex-fascist life-force Juan (Javier Gutiérrez), two out-of-favour Madrid detectives exiled to the boondocks to find a serial killer.

https://youtu.be/8Fpk3Lnc638

Director:
Alberto Rodríguez 

Starring:
Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod

Rating:  15
Year:  2014
Country:  Spain
Length:  105mins

(Subtitles)