"Impresionante,
imprescindible.(...) Un guión que por fin ha puesto
las cosas en su lugar"
Mirito Torreiro, EL PAÍS
"Sobrecogedor acercamiento a víctimas del terrorismo etarra, mostrado con un respeto y una contundencia que colocan al filme entre los más importantes realizados en España sobre el terrorismo."
M. Torreiro: Diario El País
"Aquí no se habla de política; es una película estrictamente materialista, y la materia es el dolor, la ausencia, la lucha contra el olvido. (...)
Puntuación: *** (sobre 5).
Antonio Weinrichter: Diario ABC
"Una reflexión sobre la fragilidad de la memoria (...) captura con precisión el rostro de soledad y desencanto de los involuntarios protagonistas. (...)
Puntuación: *** (sobre 5).
David Broc: Fotogramas
"Un peliculón. Imprescindible"
Marta Arteaga, COPE
"Tan crudo como conmovedor. Imprescindible"
Vox Populi, EL MUNDO
"Quien quiera saber el injusto abandono y el dolor que han sufrido debe ver el impresionante documental de Iñaki Arteta"
Fernando Savater, EL PAÍS
"La respuesta a la falta de propuestas cinematográficas comprometidas con la cruda realidad social del terrorismo"
Ramon Palomeras, AVUI
"Arteta no enfatiza ni se recrea en la desgracia: acompaña a los familiares en el recuerdo y el sufrimiento."
David Broc, FOTOGRAMAS
**** MUY BUENA
CINEMANÍA
"Magnífica muestra de la cruda realidad cotidiana"
Juana Samanes, LA GACETA DE LOS NEGOCIOS
"TRECE ENTRE MIL le da la palabra a familiares de víctimas de ETA"
Lluís Bonet Mojica, LA VANGUARDIA
"Un excelente cine documental de tesis y compromiso"
Enrique Portocarrero, EL CORREO
"Un aguijón para las consciencias"
Virginia Ródenas, ABC
"Su sinceridad resulta desoladora, pero también deja un resquicio para la esperanza"
Oskar L. Belategui, EL CORREO
“Iñaki Arteta ha sabido tocar los corazones de los entrevistados logrando así una comunicación con el espectador sin parangón en el último cine documental, y lo ha hecho desde dentro, desde la humanidad de las personas, sin necesidad de acudir a púlpitos o escaños”.
Marcos M. Sanguos, planetacine.com
“Un documental fascinante por su sencillez reveladora; un ejercicio absolutamente respetuoso y determinante sobre las víctimas. Una película turbulenta, incómoda, puesto que no sólo se acerca al averno, sino que reflexiona además sobre la soledad de las víctimas”.
Ramón del Pino
Mirito Torreiro, EL PAÍS
"Sobrecogedor acercamiento a víctimas del terrorismo etarra, mostrado con un respeto y una contundencia que colocan al filme entre los más importantes realizados en España sobre el terrorismo."
M. Torreiro: Diario El País
"Aquí no se habla de política; es una película estrictamente materialista, y la materia es el dolor, la ausencia, la lucha contra el olvido. (...)
Puntuación: *** (sobre 5).
Antonio Weinrichter: Diario ABC
"Una reflexión sobre la fragilidad de la memoria (...) captura con precisión el rostro de soledad y desencanto de los involuntarios protagonistas. (...)
Puntuación: *** (sobre 5).
David Broc: Fotogramas
"Un peliculón. Imprescindible"
Marta Arteaga, COPE
"Tan crudo como conmovedor. Imprescindible"
Vox Populi, EL MUNDO
"Quien quiera saber el injusto abandono y el dolor que han sufrido debe ver el impresionante documental de Iñaki Arteta"
Fernando Savater, EL PAÍS
"La respuesta a la falta de propuestas cinematográficas comprometidas con la cruda realidad social del terrorismo"
Ramon Palomeras, AVUI
"Arteta no enfatiza ni se recrea en la desgracia: acompaña a los familiares en el recuerdo y el sufrimiento."
David Broc, FOTOGRAMAS
**** MUY BUENA
CINEMANÍA
"Magnífica muestra de la cruda realidad cotidiana"
Juana Samanes, LA GACETA DE LOS NEGOCIOS
"TRECE ENTRE MIL le da la palabra a familiares de víctimas de ETA"
Lluís Bonet Mojica, LA VANGUARDIA
"Un excelente cine documental de tesis y compromiso"
Enrique Portocarrero, EL CORREO
"Un aguijón para las consciencias"
Virginia Ródenas, ABC
"Su sinceridad resulta desoladora, pero también deja un resquicio para la esperanza"
Oskar L. Belategui, EL CORREO
“Iñaki Arteta ha sabido tocar los corazones de los entrevistados logrando así una comunicación con el espectador sin parangón en el último cine documental, y lo ha hecho desde dentro, desde la humanidad de las personas, sin necesidad de acudir a púlpitos o escaños”.
Marcos M. Sanguos, planetacine.com
“Un documental fascinante por su sencillez reveladora; un ejercicio absolutamente respetuoso y determinante sobre las víctimas. Una película turbulenta, incómoda, puesto que no sólo se acerca al averno, sino que reflexiona además sobre la soledad de las víctimas”.
Ramón del Pino
VARIETY
Thirteen Among a Thousand
Trece Entre Mil (Documentary - Spain) Running time: 90 MIN.
Directed by Iñaki Arteta
By JONATHAN HOLLAND
An interview-based investigation into the human consequences of terrorism that is moving, thought-provoking and appalling in equal measure, Inaki Arteta's "Thirteen Among a Thousand" is the latest in a surprisingly small number of Spanish docus to deal with the impact of the Basque terrorist group ETA on Spanish society over the past 30 years. Domestic business has been slow for a project that may lack context for offshore auds, but whose urgently contempo subject deserves as much fest exposure as the more explicitly political item to which it's somewhat of a complement, Julio Medem's "Basque Ball."
In selecting his 13 victims from the thousand ETA has killed (hence the title), helmer has used stories involving a range of people from children to local politicians (who lived with the awareness they might be blown up), adding up to a comprehensive, nuanced study of how terrorism transforms lives across the social and political spectra.
Interviewees, some more articulate than others, include the families of Jesus Ulayar, the mayor of a small town; chauffeur Francisco Maranon, now elderly and wheelchair-bound, who refers to himself as "a piece of meat with eyes"; two widows of politicians between whom a friendship has developed since their husbands' deaths; Antonio Moreno, who describes how his daughter literally fell apart in his arms as he tried to rescue her from his bombed car; and the brother of politician Ramon Baglietto, killed by a man whom Baglietto had saved as a baby.
Docu handles its difficult interviews with unwavering sensitivity and intelligence, focusing on consequences rather than causes; transcending built-in human interest, pic develops into a condemnation of social and organizational indifference to the plight of the victims. Pic notes the refusal of local people to speak out on the subject for fear of retribution; several members of docu's crew asked to be credited with only their initials for exactly this reason.
With the helmer's decision not to use voiceover, testimony emerges exclusively from family members. Newsreel footage and homevideo round out the visuals.
Editing is fluid and effective, while lensing is neat but sometimes tricksy, as in the occasional use of black-and-white shots of interviewees to suggest the weight of the past on their blighted lives. Music is discreetly used to underpin mood, sometimes needlessly.
For the record, helmer has penned a letter to the media requesting the socially significant docu not be removed from Spanish cinema screens before people have had a chance to see it.
Thirteen Among a Thousand
Trece Entre Mil (Documentary - Spain) Running time: 90 MIN.
Directed by Iñaki Arteta
By JONATHAN HOLLAND
An interview-based investigation into the human consequences of terrorism that is moving, thought-provoking and appalling in equal measure, Inaki Arteta's "Thirteen Among a Thousand" is the latest in a surprisingly small number of Spanish docus to deal with the impact of the Basque terrorist group ETA on Spanish society over the past 30 years. Domestic business has been slow for a project that may lack context for offshore auds, but whose urgently contempo subject deserves as much fest exposure as the more explicitly political item to which it's somewhat of a complement, Julio Medem's "Basque Ball."
In selecting his 13 victims from the thousand ETA has killed (hence the title), helmer has used stories involving a range of people from children to local politicians (who lived with the awareness they might be blown up), adding up to a comprehensive, nuanced study of how terrorism transforms lives across the social and political spectra.
Interviewees, some more articulate than others, include the families of Jesus Ulayar, the mayor of a small town; chauffeur Francisco Maranon, now elderly and wheelchair-bound, who refers to himself as "a piece of meat with eyes"; two widows of politicians between whom a friendship has developed since their husbands' deaths; Antonio Moreno, who describes how his daughter literally fell apart in his arms as he tried to rescue her from his bombed car; and the brother of politician Ramon Baglietto, killed by a man whom Baglietto had saved as a baby.
Docu handles its difficult interviews with unwavering sensitivity and intelligence, focusing on consequences rather than causes; transcending built-in human interest, pic develops into a condemnation of social and organizational indifference to the plight of the victims. Pic notes the refusal of local people to speak out on the subject for fear of retribution; several members of docu's crew asked to be credited with only their initials for exactly this reason.
With the helmer's decision not to use voiceover, testimony emerges exclusively from family members. Newsreel footage and homevideo round out the visuals.
Editing is fluid and effective, while lensing is neat but sometimes tricksy, as in the occasional use of black-and-white shots of interviewees to suggest the weight of the past on their blighted lives. Music is discreetly used to underpin mood, sometimes needlessly.
For the record, helmer has penned a letter to the media requesting the socially significant docu not be removed from Spanish cinema screens before people have had a chance to see it.