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Film

Maixabel

The human faces of ETA’s violent legacy
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ABR Arts • 28 April 2022
Film

Maixabel

The human faces of ETA’s violent legacy
by •
ABR Arts • 28 April 2022
Luis Tosar as Ibon Etxezarreta and Blanca Portillo as Maixabel Lasa in <em>Maixabel</em> (image courtesy of Palace Films)
Luis Tosar as Ibon Etxezarreta and Blanca Portillo as Maixabel Lasa in Maixabel (image courtesy of Palace Films)

You are camping with friends, drinking beer and swimming, celebrating your nineteenth birthday. A car pulls up in the forest. Your aunt emerges, and as she walks towards you she calls out, palms pressed as if in prayer. In Spanish filmmaker Icíar Bollaín’s gripping Maixabel (2021), it is enough for a relative to say your name to know that the worst has happened: your world has ended, your father has finally been slaughtered.

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Ruth McHugh-Dillon

Ruth McHugh-Dillon holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American studies from the University of Melbourne, specialising in literary representations of memory and trauma in post-dictatorship societies. She writes, reads, and researches on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne.

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Ruth McHugh-Dillon

Ruth McHugh-Dillon holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American studies from the University of Melbourne, specialising in literary representations of memory and trauma in post-dictatorship societies. She writes, reads, and researches on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne.

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