Netflix surprise releases the most awarded Spanish thriller in recent years, where the tension goes ‘in crescendo’ at times

We give you a clue: it was the winner of the Goya for ‘Best Film’ in the 2023 edition

Among the Netflix news from June 10 to 16, there is a premiere that totally eclipses all the others: the second part of season 3 The Bridgertons, which will land on Friday with the final culmination of the love story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington. However, the streaming giant was careful another ace up his sleeve for this week, which has appeared by surprise in the platform catalog.

This is a film that has won a whopping 23 awards among the Platinum Ibero-American Cinema Awards (4), the Feroz Awards (3), the Forqué Awards (2), the César Awards of France (1), the Tokyo International Festival (3) and the San Sebastián Festival (1 ). They don’t give you the accounts, do they? Well of course not, because the Goya Awards 2023, where he won 9 of the 17 statuettes for which she was nominated, and where she was proclaimed the winner in categories as relevant as ‘Best Film’, ‘Best Direction’, ‘Best Leading Actor’ and ‘Best Supporting Actor’for Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Denis Ménochet and Luis Zahera, in that order.

as beasts It is now available in the Netflix catalog

Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The kingdom, May God forgive us) is the director of as beastshe Spanish thriller based on real events which has just landed in the Netflix catalog, ready to be among the most viewed titles in the coming weeks. Without serving as a spoiler, Sorogoyen was inspired by the event that occurred in the Galician parish of Santoalla do Monte (Ourense), back in January 2010.

The film follows the story of Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Olga (Marina Foïs), a French couple living in a town in the interior of Galicia after getting tired of being in France. Although their coexistence with the locals is not as good as they would like, they lead a quiet and relaxed life in the rural village, where they dedicate themselves to work your garden and sell the products that they grow in the local market.

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However, this is beginning to clash more and more with the town’s families, who have worked hard in those mountainous lands for generations. When the French They decide to sell the local land to a Norwegian companythere is a confrontation with their neighbors, the Anta brothers (Luis Zahera and Diego Anido), which ends up being the trigger for the Tensions between locals and foreigners explode into the air and the town enters a point of no return.

as beasts It’s an explosion of tension during 2 hours and 18 minutes, something you can already see for yourself if you have a Netflix subscription. According to the ratings of the review website Rotten Tomatoes, the film obtains a practically unbeatable score: 87% positive comments from the audience overall, a score that becomes even higher when it is evaluated by critics professionals, who give it a 98% approval.

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