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The Sacred Spirit (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]
(Llum Arques, Nacho Fernández, Rocío Ibáñez, et al / 2-Disc Blu-ray / NR / 2022 / Arrow Films - MVD Visual)

Overview: A missing girl. A community in shock. Jose Manuel lives a quiet life. He works in his modest tapas bar, takes care of his elderly mother and attends weekly meetings of the Ovni-Levante, a group of devoted UFO enthusiasts who gather after hours at the office of a local estate agent to exchange information about extraterrestrial messages and alien abductions.

When their leader dies unexpectedly, only Jose is left to know the cosmic secret that could alter the future of humanity. And only Jose knows what he must do. As if Ken Loach and Aki Kaurismaki remade the The X-Files, The Sacred Spirit is a provocative, humane, and unsparing vision that marks the arrival of a unique new voice in genre cinema.

Blu-ray Verdict: In one of the most interesting films that I have seen in the past decade, as aforementioned, the story relates to José Manuel, a member of the ufology association Ovni-Levante (UFO-Raise), which meets weekly to exchange information about the latest messages from the stars and abductions down here on Earth.

When their leader dies unexpectedly, José becomes humanity’s only hope, the keeper of a cosmic secret. Even more mysteriously, that knowledge ties in to the disappearance of José’s niece Vanessa from the town of Elche.

Furthermore, this movie lovingly packs in every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard - ancient aliens, organ harvesting, secret societies - and places them alongside the very human drama of growing up weird in a dysfunctional family in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Director and writer Chema García Ibarra has put together something quite strange here and that last image of the Sphinx - inflating as it brings the goofiness, the strange and the everyday together much like the rest of this film - is one that will stick with me for some time (and you also, trust me!).

Oh, and in the first scene where Vanessa’s twin sister Verónica gives her class a speech about what devil worshipers look for when they kidnap children, well, if that doesn’t most perfectly sum up the rest of the film - a story about how believers search for meaning and yet often miss the darkness gathering around them, especially if it doesn’t fit the mythology they’ve created for themselves- then I honestly don’t know what does! Watch this film today, as you will not be disappointed, of that you have my word, my friends. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation
Exclusive second disc containing a selection of award-winning short films by director Chema Garcia Ibarra
Fully illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Shelagh Rowan-Legg, author of The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-fi
Fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative

DISC 1 - FEATURE & EXTRAS:
High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation
DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
Optional English subtitles
Beyond the Eye of Horus, a visual essay about the use of surveillance and Egyptology in The Sacred Spirit by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Pyramid Scheme, a visual essay examining conspiracy, class and capitalism in The Sacred Spirit by Josh Nelson
Domestic Science Fiction, an interview with writer-director Chema Garcia Ibarra
Behind the Scenes, four short featurettes shot during production
Elche Vision, a series of six location reports about the making of the film, hosted by actress Lorena Iglesias in character as Esther Armengol, presenter of The Sacred Spirit’s fictional local TV show
Promotional videos in which the characters of The Sacred Spirit talk about themselves
Uncut TV Clips, background television broadcasts shot especially for the film and presented here in full
Image gallery
Theatrical trailer

DISC 2 - DOMESTIC SCI-FI: THE SHORT FILMS OF CHEMA GARCIA IBARRA (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE):
The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 (2008) 7 mins, Sundance Film Festival Award Winner
Protoparticles (2013) 8 mins, Sundance Film Festival Award Winner
Mystery (2013) 12 mins, Berlin International Film Festival Award Winner
Uranes (2014) 59 mins
The Disco Shines (2016) 12 mins, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Award Winner
The Golden Legend (2019) 11 mins, Ann Arbor Film Festival Award Winner

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