Deprisa, Deprisa

If you think of Saura's filmography in cycles, DEPRISA, DEPRISA closes a circle by returning to his very first film. Once again, the focus is on a group of young people who - disillusioned by the bleak life in Madrid's satellite towns - hang out in discos and gambling halls and commit a series of robberies in which the spiral of violence constantly increases. With the casting of non-professional actors, the technical simplicity and the loose narrative structure, Saura distances himself stylistically from his sophisticated political parables of the 1970s, but the film should not be seen as apolitical: The transition to a parliamentary monarchy may be in full swing, but representatives of the old days are still at the levers of power.