X (2002 film)

X is a 2002 Spanish mystery thriller film directed and written by Luis Marías which stars Antonio Resines, Esperanza Roy, and María Adánez.

Plot
Failing to remember events after a drunken night and awakening in an unknown bed with blackmailer Natalia, cop Javier goes through his own personal hell as he becomes the prime suspect behind the killing of a young homosexual man, meeting up with the deceased's lame and resentful sister Alicia.

Production
The film is a BocaBoca production. It was shot in the Summer of 2000.

Release
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Spain, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 14 June 2002.

Reception
Casimiro Torreiro of El País deemed the film to be "a more than stimulating first work", "with an inspiration that is not abundant in the scripts of criminal films [in Spanish cinema], actors adjusted to their rather thankless roles and a plot that locks its protagonist in a suffocating incriminating circle".

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be "efficient and well-played, with sharp and silly plot twists in equal measure", but featuring "little else to generate enthusiasm in what is basically another riff on the battered cop theme".