Review: Devil Between the Legs
film profile] (2015), and this one, which is now landing in Spanish movie theatres. Appearing in both titles is the director’s pet actress ( Patricia Reyes Spíndola), but the former’s urban and nocturnal squalor, populated by dwarves, pimps and prostitutes, has been swapped out for a more diurnal, home-based story, but one that’s just as audacious when it comes to serving as a mirror of the human being and its basest of acts. Here, it’s just one married couple, their maid and the husband’s lover whom we see (plus the odd brief appearance, such as the dancing partner played by