Furtivos

Furtivos Poachers is a 1975 Spanish film directed by Jos Luis Borau. It stars Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor and Alicia Snchez. The script was written by Manuel Gutirrez Aragn and Jos Luis Borau. The film is a stark drama that portraits an oedipal relationship and its dire consequences. A great critical and commercial success, it won best picture at the San Sebastin International Film Festival in 1975. Furtivos is considered a classic of Spanish cinema.

ngel goes to the provincial capital to buy traps, rope and nooses. He has killed a wolf taking the skin to sell it. In town, he is smitten with a young woman, Milagros, who is looking for a way out of her troubles. Milagros is the girlfriend of a wellknown delinquent nicknamed El Cuqui. She has escaped from the local reformatory for girls hoping to run away with her lover. With no money and still wearing the reformatorys uniform, she notices ngel eating his lunch in the street and boldly seduces him taking him for a fool. ngel buys her new clothes and after spending a clandestine evening in an out of the way hotel, he invites her to return to the forest with him. Initially reluctant, Milagros eventually leaves with him on a bus towards the forest.Meanwhile, Martina has been busy entertaining the childish and irritating Governor, who has come with some friends to hunt deer. Upset with her sons delay in town, Martina is furious when she sees him arriving with a girl in tow. She takes out her displace ire on a trapped shewolf. Martina savagely kills the defenseless animal with an ax. Milagros plan is to leave soon hiding out from the authorities until El Cuqui comes to look for her, but ngel, in spite of his mother opposition, is determined that she stays with him. During the hunting expedition, the Governor shoots at a deer with no success, and as the animal is about to get away, ngel, in another part of the forest, kills the animal and drags it out of sight. Initially ngel tries to hide the presence of the runaway girl from the Governor, but Martina, who is jealous, makes Milagros come to the notice of the Governor. Martinas plan to get rid of Milagros backfires. Instead of returning her to the reformatory, the governor accepts to let her free as ngel wants to marry the wayward girl. He would be now responsible for her. ........

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