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Vacas 92 minutes, Spain (1992), 15
(3.5)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
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Average user rating (2.2 / 8 votes)

Award-winning debut by Julio Medem, director of Sex And Lucia. An eerie family saga set in rural Spain, it's overflowing with extraordinary images of sex, war, mushrooms and cows

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Vacas: Julio Medem's cryptic and creepy film follows the feud between two families from 1875 to 1935. The various strands never quite come together but it's a strikingly accomplished debut, highly atmospheric and rich in symbolism.

The Iriguibels and Mendiluzes first clash during the Second Carlist War, where a single act of cowardice condemns successive generations to 70 years of animosity...
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