THE HOURS OF THE DAY
aka LAS HORAS DEL DiA

Year: 2003
UK: ICA Projects
Cast: Alex Brendemuhl, agata Roca, Maria Antonia Martinez, Pape Monsoriu, Vicente Romero, Irene Belza, Anna Sahun, Isabel Rocatti, Armando Aguirre
Director: Jaime Rosales
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
UK: 101 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and moderate violence
UK Release Date: 2 July 2004 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 18 June 2004 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

This striking debut feature from young Barcelona-born director Jaime Rosales methodically gets under your skin while managing to avoid standard manipulative tricks. Abel (Alex Brendemuhl) runs a family clothing store, has a girlfriend with whom he may buy an apartment and enjoys a reasonably civil relationship with his mother. He appears to be a perfectly ordinary young man. But behind that mask something else is going on, a capacity for unmotivated, unpredictable violence that transforms Abel into a creature impossible to understand, even as he appears to be a model of normality.