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Maixabel

2021 · 115 min · Director: Icíar Bollaín ★ IMDb 7.1 · 4,153 ratings

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On July 29, 2000 in Tolosa, Guipúzcoa (Basque Country, north to Spain), and while he was with a close friend in a bar, three ETA's terrorists kill to the former Civil Governor of Guipúzcoa Juan María Jaúregui, tearing apart his wife Maixabel Lasa and their 19 years old daughter María. Eleven years later, María is married and mother of a baby girl, and her mother leads the Association of the Victims of Terrorism, to remember the dead and hurts by ETA and get a chance for reconciliation and peace. Ibon Etxezarreta, one of Jaúregui's assassins, is moved to the jail of Nanclares de la Oca to be close of his aging mother, meeting in Nanclares with other of the killers, Luis Carrasco. Exiled of the band by this rejection to the violence and the armed fight, Luis and Ibon try reconcile their lives with the past and the crimes committed, while the others ETA inmates of the jail repudiate them. When Maixabel organizes a series of jail meeting between killers and victims in an attempt to approach positions, Luis requests to meet Maixabel for asking forgiveness, while Ibon learns during a brief prison permit that his former friends reject him too, finding himself totally alone, turned in outcast for everyone. Despite María's objection and her fear to lose her mother as she lost her father, Maixabel agrees to meet Luis in Nanclares, trying understand not only the happened but why it happened. Trapped by the remembers of the people he killed and pain caused to their friends and relatives, Ibon requests his own meeting with Maixabel as a first step for the redemption, but then he is reported that the authorities have canceled the meetings, leaving her with a more complicated option for Maixabel if she agreed to Ibon's request: meeting with him during another prison permit outside the jail, where there is no the same security. Inspired on true events, Maixabel is a story not only about terror and pain, but the ability to forgive and leave the hate behind.

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Maixabel (2021) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 35%, Sadness 25%, Inspiration 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension73 %45 %47 %62 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Sadness79 %65 %63 %57 %
12.5 %≈ 14′Sadness68 %59 %56 %45 %
17.5 %≈ 20′Tension49 %36 %36 %36 %
22.5 %≈ 26′Sadness50 %33 %38 %44 %
27.5 %≈ 32′Tension65 %41 %55 %56 %
32.5 %≈ 37′Empathy66 %49 %61 %50 %
37.5 %≈ 43′Sadness59 %49 %54 %41 %
42.5 %≈ 49′Sadness61 %46 %49 %50 %
47.5 %≈ 55′Tension66 %48 %49 %60 %
52.5 %≈ 60′Sadness75 %64 %63 %63 %
57.5 %≈ 66′Sadness85 %79 %79 %56 %
62.5 %≈ 72′Sadness83 %68 %78 %43 %
67.5 %≈ 78′Relief73 %50 %68 %39 %
72.5 %≈ 83′Sadness66 %46 %63 %48 %
77.5 %≈ 89′Empathy70 %54 %69 %53 %
82.5 %≈ 95′Sadness80 %68 %76 %46 %
87.5 %≈ 101′Relief84 %68 %75 %36 %
92.5 %≈ 106′Hope82 %57 %73 %35 %
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Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Luis Tosar

Ibon Etxezarreta

MC
María Cerezuela

UO
Urko Olazábal

Luis Carrasco

TC
Tamara Canosa

Esther

MJ
María Jesús Hoyos

Madre de Ibon

AA
Arantxa Aranguren

Carmen

BS
Bruno Sevilla

Luichi (Marido María)

JO
Josu Ormaetxe

Juan Mari Jáuregui

MR
Martxelo Rubio

Amigo Maixabel

PT
Patxo Tellería

Director Cárcel

JL
Jone Laspiur

Amiga de María

PB
Paule Barcenilla

Amiga de María

IG
Itxaso Gil

Amiga de María

JM
José María Asín

Vecino

DB
David Blanka

Funcionario Nanclares

MG
Miguel Garcés

Prisonnier

MB
Mikel Bustamante

Etarra Comando

AA
Ainhoa Artetxe

Amiga de María

Details

Directed by
Icíar Bollaín
Written by
Icíar Bollaín, Isa Campo
Type
Movies
Released
2021
Runtime
115 min
Country
Spain
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.1 · 4,153 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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