Fuego (2014 film)

Fuego is a 2014 Spanish thriller film directed by Luis Marías and starring José Coronado, Aida Folch, and Leyre Berrocal.

Plot
11 years after surviving an ETA car bomb attack that killed his wife and left his 10-year-old daughter Alba mutilated, hateful former cop Carlos (now living in Barcelona and working in the security sector) only thinks about vengeance.

Production
The film is a Tornasol Films, Historias del Tío Luis, and Fausto Producciones production, and it had the collaboration of TVC and EiTB, and backing from ICAA, the Basque Government, and Ayuntamiento de Bilbao. It was shot in Spanish and Basque. Shooting locations included Barcelona, Bilbao, Lekeitio, Bermeo, Gatika, and Gorliz.

Release
The film was presented at the 52nd Gijón International Film Festival (FICXixón) on 22 November 2014. Distributed by Syldavia Cinema, it was released theatrically in Spain on 28 November 2014.

Reception
Javier Ocaña of El País deemed the film "a challenging and very courageous attempt that, nevertheless, is shipwrecked both by a lack of complexity and by narrative and technical imbalances".

Manuel Piñón of Cinemanía justified the only star out of 5 he give to the film, because "at least a spiritual retreat is due for Marías so he can reexamine the innumerable errors of his film".