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Julio Medem’s ‘8,’ at This Year’s EFM, Explores 90 Years of Spanish History Through Two Intertwined Lives
Julio Medem returns with ‘8,’ an ambitious tale of love, fate and Spain’s divided history.
Javier Rey (“Cocaine Coast”) stars as Octavio, while Ana Rujas, acclaimed for her role in Los Javis’ “La Mesías,” plays Adela. “Octavio and Adela’s fates are intertwined by what I call the ‘meta-reality’ of eight — separated yet drawn together by an invisible force of chance.” This chance begins with their being born on the same day at the same time in neighboring villages. “Both Adela and Octavio are subjected, sometimes cruelly, to their social and political environments,” Medem said, emphasizing that their individual destinies become a representation of the two Spains and “an emotional reflection of its Cainism.”
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