Review of the film ‘Jacinto’ (2021)

Alexandra and Corinna are two musicians from a swedish metal group that decide to move to a small village in Galicia, Spain, where Alexandra was born. There they find picturesque, narrow-minded people including their neighbours, the Becerra family with the titular Jacinto, an adult that doesn’t talk and has the innocence of a child. The film is multilingual, with the musicians’ dialogues being in English and the locals’ dialogues being in Galician (and a bit of Spanish) with English subtitles.

Conflicts between neighbours arise and tension slowly builds up, with Jacinto’s scheming brother Millán trying to profit one way or the other, somehow being the villain and the lead of the film at the same time . The plot certainly has boring parts, like the musicians trying to become YouTubers, but there are still parts that keep the spectator interested. The direction portraits adequately the picturesque characters, with the help of music that mixes electric guitars with a pipe. The edition is mainly right, with just a couple of shots left long.

About the acting: Good Juanma Buiturón as Millán. Fine Pedro Brandáriz Gómez, Pilar Miguélez and Corinna Rautenberg. Weak Miro Magariños. Weak too Anxela Baltar, not really because of her acting but because of her bad English. Of course, she plays a galician character that moved to Sweden, so bad English would fit her character – but it is so bad that is hardly understandable.

All in all, a weak horror film. 2 out of 5.

Title:	Jacinto
Genre:	Horror comedy
Year:	2021
Nationality:	Spain
Colour:	Colour
Director:	Javi Camino
Writer:	Javi Camino
Cast:	Pedro Brandariz, Anxela Baltar, Corinna Rautenberg, Juanma Buiturón, Miro Magariños, Pilar Miguélez
Executive producer:	Xabier Eirís
Cinematographer:	Francisco Arnoso 'Pixi'
Art Director:	Samuel Lema
Costume Designer:	Lorena Calvo
Music:	Wenceslao Lamas Lopez, Svali, Cela Ortega
Running time:	95 minutes
Language:	Galician, English, Spanish