aka: Overdose
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia
Writer: Gonzalo Goicoechea, Eloy de la Iglesia
Country: Spain Runtime: 105 min Soundtrack: Luis Iriondo
Cast: José Luis Manzano, Javier García, José Manuel Cervino
This movie belongs to the "quinqui" genre, i.e. tales of impoverished teenagers having sex, taking drugs or trying to score a fix by selling their bodies. Basically, it's Pasolini's "Ragazzi di vita" in the post-Regime Spain. Like the italian novelist and filmmaker, in fact, Eloy de la Iglesia used to cast young non-professional actors to play themselves: José Luis Manzano and "Pirri" actually were uneducated and unemployed kids bound to tragically die of an overdose or AIDS. However, "El Pico" features an interesting variation on the fixed "quinqui" formula: in this movie, in fact, the troubled teen protagonists are the son of a politician and the son of a General.
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Cultdb Totals
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