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What it all seems to come down to is ‘who was the first of the gang with a gun in their hands to die?‘ And there have been plenty of hands and plenty of guns. The Basque struggle dates back beyond the reign of Sancho VII the Strong (around 1016), the last in the line of Basque monarchs, but it was finally recognised by the wider world in 1959, courtesy of the frighteningly efficient persecution by General Franco. But that’s only half the story - and you think the socio political history of Northern Ireland is complicated?
Thank the Lord (3 Christian Social Democrat God, of course) then for Julio Medem’s remarkable documentary The Basque Ball. Medem is one of the most gifted, instinctive and brilliant filmmakers working today. His fiction films The Red Squirrel, Earth, and Sex and Lucia drew a line in the sand for Basque/Northern Spanish filmmaking that challenged the Almodovarian campocrisy. Amazingly, The Basque Ball is Medem’s first feature length
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