Fuego (2014 film)

11 years after surviving an ETA car bomb attack that killed his wife and left his 10-year-old daughter Alba mutilated, hateful former cop Carlos (now living in Barcelona and working in the security sector) only thinks about vengeance.[1][2]

The film is a Tornasol Films, Historias del Tío Luis, and Fausto Producciones production, and it had the collaboration of TVC and EiTB, and backing from ICAA, the Basque Government, and Ayuntamiento de Bilbao.[2] It was shot in Spanish and Basque.[3] Shooting locations included Barcelona, Bilbao, Lekeitio, Bermeo, Gatika, and Gorliz.[4][5]

The film was presented at the 52nd Gijón International Film Festival (FICXixón) on 22 November 2014.[6] Distributed by Syldavia Cinema,[5] it was released theatrically in Spain on 28 November 2014.[7]

Javier Ocaña of El País deemed the film "a challenging and very courageous attempt that, nevertheless, is shipwrecked both by a lack of complexity and by narrative and technical imbalances".[8]

Manuel Piñón of Cinemanía rated the film 1 out of 5 stars, claiming that "at least a spiritual retreat is due for Marías so he can reexamine the innumerable errors of his film".[7]

• List of Spanish films of 2014