Critics have called it an unusual film, "an impossible cross between the nihilism of Gaspar Noé and the transcendentalism of Terrence Malick" to celebrate the audacity of a film like H [+lire aussi :
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H is based on a real event: the fatal wound suffered by a runner during the Sanfermines in 1969 who, contrary to tradition, went to the run dressed in blue and not in white, like everyone else. Nobody knew who the man was who carried a key ring with the letter H in his pockets. After many hours in the morgue, he was identified: he was the uncle of the director of this film.

After the mystery that surrounded him, Pardo Ros gathered four friends to wander through the streets of Pamplona in those uncertain hours between night and dawn when any trace of H disappeared in the middle of the Sanfermines. Dressed in blue, like him, they became his ghosts over the ten days of the festival.

Carlos Pardo Ros has been a member of the film research group lacasinegra together with Gabriel Azorín (Los mutantes [+lire aussi :
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Here is the exclusive poster and trailer: