"The passing of time is the only theme," declares the hard-bitten protag of "Madrid, 1987," and considering that the film consists almost entirely of a monologue in a grimy bathroom, the time passes ...

Writer-director David Trueba strips his characters bare, figuratively and literally, in the language-driven two-hander “Madrid, 1987,” which uses a May-December pairing to explore a moment of intense ...

At the start of Madrid, 1987, the cynical Miguel (José Sacristán), a veteran newspaper columnist in his 70s, goes to a café to meet Angela (María Valdaverde), a young journalism student profiling him ...

“Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare,” wrote William Shakespeare, a point drawn forcefully home if you’re locked inside a small bathroom with a naked, sexagenarian newspaper columnist whose ...

Madrid 1987 is a claustrophobic two-hander between an acerbic Spanish writer and his young acolyte which could perhaps work as a play, despite the fact that it was apparently written for the cinema.

On a hot day in July 1987, in the vacant city, Miguel, a feared and respected senior newspaper writer, sets up a meeting in a café with Ángela, a young journalism student. From the first instant, ...

Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman. Four walls within which they conjure intellectualism, relive the profession (journalism), explore politics and discover each other.