While at War (2019)

I've only perceived criticism to the republican party and a nearly comic and insecure franco (I'm not going to put his name with capitals. I t feels like a justification for wrong actions. Unamuno doesn't deserve forgiveness for his support to franco. Long "patriotics" scenes. What a shame!!!

Fmovies: This is a very simple story and I think Amenabar wants to warn us about the dangers we are facing today. Our intellectuals, not only academics, are watching, without any big unrest, the rise of fascism in our countries and aren't clearly going against it. Miguel Unamuno was one of them, he thought their current regime (the republic) wasn't going good enough and he thought that these right wingers bringing some force and order could solve the problems of Spain. He even financed them! Meanwhile, he closed his eyes to the reality, despite warnings from very close friends, and all the signs around him, but then, when he woke up, it was already too late. See any resemblance to what is happening today? What are our intellectuals doing? Think about it, soon it might be too late again.

We have watched dozens of films about Spanish Civil War, mostly trying to depict a complete portrait of this three-yers-old, a million people dead, bloody war. Unamuno is just an excuse to narrate the birth of fascism as full scale freedom-killer. No explicit violence makes even more hurting what happens behind the scenes. I watched it yesterday Nov 9th and while I'm writing there is one hour left to find out if today's polls will confirm that the heritors of these fascists ultra-catholics are back.

While at War fmovies. Well directed, well acted, As always Alejandro Amenábar has done an excellent job.

The story follows Miguel de Unamuno who was the rector of the university Salamanca before the war. As with happens with many intellectuals he was blind to the consequences of what was happening around him.

The dictatorship's rise and time in power is still a hot potato here in Spain. The transition to democracy, though smooth, did not manage to heal the wounds of seventy years of dictatorship.

This story is timeless: we cannot see the reality of something until it is too late. But even if we can, are we able to change things? Or is it the man with the gun and all the bullets that decides who is in the right?

This movie it's a very academic and delightful approach to the most big problem of spanish people: people who change their mind, but though Miguel de Unamuno's life. Really worthy!

Great story, great acting, great direction. Maybe it did not happen exactly as it is told (it is a film not a documentary) but the portrait of that Spain, of those days, of Unamuno, of the militars is perfect. The reasons of the caracteres, of all of them, not only Unamuno or Franco but also Millán Astray, the friends and family of D Miguel are a perfect mirror tonlook at and think over. After enjoying this film I started reading again some of Unamuno's books I had already read many years ago when I was younger.