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El Lobo (15)
Jun 16 2006 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail
A CROSS between Munich and The Interpreter, this Spanish film is based on a 30-year-old true story about the ETA terrorist movement at the end of Franco's dictatorship.
The beginning is accompanied by Deep Purple's Highway Star, It's a bizarre, but fun trend...
El Lobo - The Wolf - also features Marc Bolan's 20th Century Boy and Slade's Coz I Love You, as well as a Ruud Van Nistelrooy lookalike infiltrating ETA with stunning results.
The downside is that he'll end up facing danger from both sides after the Prime Minister is killed.
A 125-minute film of its its time yet with clear resonance in today's world, El Lobo was directed by Paris-born Miguel Courtois with the charismatic Eduardo Noriega in the lead role as Basque construction worker Txema.
Showing at Cineworld Broad St only.
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