Variety Critics´ Choice 2001 / El otro barrio / Spain 2000
Salvador Garcia Ruiz’s compelling second feature, The Other Side, charts the parallel emotional journeys of an adolescent boy who’s indirectly responsible for a man´s death, and the lawyer engaged to help him. The story opens with an uneasy encounter between the two characters, seemingly worlds apart. One is shy, 15-year-old Ramon (Jorge Alcazar), accused of killing a man, while the other is successful lawyer Marcelo (Alex Casanovas), who grew up in the same low-rent, working-class Madrid neighborhood. Assembling elements of the drama like a puzzle, the screenplay conveys only the info that is absolutely necessary to get a handle on the characters, gradually sketching in layers of detail as the story unfolds and the relationships develop. David Rooney
132 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Salvador Garcia Ruiz
/ Screenplay Salvador Garcia Ruiz
/ Dir. of Photography Teodoro Delgado
/ Music Pascal Gaigne
/ Editor Carmen Frías
/ Producer Gerardo Herrero, Javier Lopéz Blanco
/ Production Tornasol Films, S.A.
/ Cast Alex Casanovas, Jorge Alcázar, Alberto Ferreiro, Pepa Pedroche,Empar Ferrer, Mónica López, Guillermo Toledo, Joaquín Climent
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