Madrid, 1987

9/5/2022

Madrid, 1987 is not what you’d call a #metoo-friendly film, which in and of itself is a good reason, though not the only one, to watch it. Miguel (José Sacristán), an old (not to say elderly) columnist, hopes to trick a beautiful young college student named Ángela (María Valverde) into having sex with him. There's nothing romantic about this situation, but then writer/director David Trueba is by no means trying to romanticize it. Ángela wants to be a writer and has written an essay about Miguel, which he has agreed to read; however, he is more interested in sexual than textual matters and soon stops pretending to care in the least about her writing — or, for that matter, his own. In an inversion of Borges' “many things I have read and few I have lived”, Miguel tells Ángela that “bef

5/17/2026

The movie is absolutely fantastic and I hope you download it. The film is set in Madrid in 1987, a period when Spain was still going through a transitional phase after Franco's death and its transformation into a democracy.