'Hasta el cielo', the good work of Calparsoro

There are filmmakers who are already a sure value for feature films and television series: Sorogoyen and Calparsoro, for example.

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(Netflix),

seven chapters that are a display of good work with the invaluable collaboration of Jorge Guerricaechevarría, another sure value in the scripts.

A story of youth gangs, moon landings and persecutions with an added fact: an excellent

, from the already consolidated Luis Tosar and Patricia Rico to less battered and excellent interpreters, Asia Ortega, Álvaro Rico and that great discovery that is Alana Porras Espinosa who, A matter of social networks, she is better known as La Hija del Sheikh, a make-up artist turned actress and with a spectacular presence.

There are many films and series of youth bands, with talent, less.

is one of the brightest, but these stories do not appear out of nowhere, they are already part of a tradition of audiovisual culture that preceded

and

by Carlos Saura or Juani de Bigas Luna, without forget about that gold mine for scriptwriters who, I suppose, is Belén Esteban when it comes to analyzing and understanding what an authentic

is , capable of crying out for Andreíta to eat the chicken.

Series that arises from a feature film with the same title by Calparsoro and Guerricaechevarría, something that we had already seen fortunately in cases such as

, by the Coens, and that demonstrates the good moment of the Spanish film industry, even though the exhibitors' union is down and tablets, computers,

and cell phones or

, as Lázaro Carreter suggested, are on the rise.

It's the market, stupid!

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