One of the virtues of O que arde , the film with which Oliver Laxe triumphed last year in Cannes, is the exuberant spell of his locations in Os Ancares, the massive horse-ridden massif of Lugo and León. The story delves into the abandonment of the agrarian environment from a non-stereotypical perspective. Amador, withdrawn and taciturn, former prisoner for causing a fire, is the son of Benedicta, an old woman anchored in the slate and wood-burning parishes of a valley that until not long ago had no roads. "To fill all this with tourists, what can be good about it?" Amador asks his mother, surrounded by chestnut trees cradled by the

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