She Walks in Darkness

2025 1h 45m ES

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6.7

SOLID

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58%

ROTTEN

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6.6

IMDB

★6.7TMDB · 122🥫58%Rotten Tomatoes★6.6IMDB · 4,142

DramaThriller

Synopsis

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A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Susana Abaitua
Amaia
Andrés Gertrúdix
Teniente Coronel Castro
Iraia Elias
Begoña
Ariadna Gil
Anboto
Raúl Arévalo
Arrieta
Anartz Zuazua
Antza
Jaime Chávarri
Txiki el Viejo
Cris Iglesias
Adela

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Writers: Agustín Díaz Yanes, Alexis Fibla
Languages: Spanish, Basque, French
Countries: Spain

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1 / 7

ERA

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Released last year.

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2 / 7

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Spanish, Basque, French.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, shot by Paco Femenía. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Arnau Bataller. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Bernat Vilaplana shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 7

CAST

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Susana Abaitua and Andrés Gertrúdix and Iraia Elias carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt32129665 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Agustín Díaz Yanes directs. Paco Femenía behind the camera. Arnau Bataller scores. Bernat Vilaplana cuts. Produced in Spain. Dialogue in Spanish, Basque, French.

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Things worth knowing

1Released last year.
2Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Spanish, Basque, French.
3Directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, shot by Paco Femenía. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Arnau Bataller. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Bernat Vilaplana shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Susana Abaitua and Andrés Gertrúdix and Iraia Elias carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt32129665 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Paco Femenía
Original score: Arnau Bataller
Editing: Bernat Vilaplana
Production design: Alain Baineé
Costume design: Saioa Lara
Makeup / hair: Karmele Soler
VFX supervisor: Laura Pedro
Sound: Oriol Tarragó
Stunt coordinator: Cuco Usín
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Status: Released
Original language: ES
Certification (US): R
IMDB: She Walks in Darkness (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 58% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 4,142 votes
MPAA: TV-MA

Awards

11 nominations total

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Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2026-09-17
★ 6/10
I was rather hoping for something along the lines of "Edge of Darkness" (1985) meets "Serpico" (1973) here, but rather than walking in darkness, civil guard agent "Amaia" (Susana Abaitua) walks in a little too much sunlight for this to be very menacing, and without that sense of peril I was a bit underwhelmed. This is all set in a Spain of the 1990s when ETA was waging it's own war against the Spanish establishment in order to achieve Basque independence. These people are a determined and well organised/disciplined group hiding in the relative safety of the South of France and so she courageously volunteers to try to infiltrate their organisation and pass back vital information that will hopefully thwart their continuing campaign of assassinations and bombings - which are often illustrated throughout using actual news reportage. Now I suppose one school of thought might well be that her very purpose - and even her survival - involved an attention to the minutiae of her day-to-day life that might, on screen, border on the pedestrian. Nobody seems to even vaguely suspect her duplicity; there are no gadgets and gizmos and there is most definitely nothing remotely glamorous about her task or that of her handler in her only marginally more safe office. There's no sense of conspiracy here at all and the snag with taking that approach is that it can leave us with something a little too pedestrian. History tells us ETA were ruthless and violent people who would certainly have thought nothing of disposing of her had they the slightest suspicion, but watching as she slowly gathers intelligence by syphoning through the dustbins with very little evidence of any risk doesn't actually make for very thrilling cinema. There's real for the sake of real and there's real for the sake of the big screen - and I think this falls between the two a little too gently, especially as she becomes more entrenched in their operation and exposed to activities that she might have been able to avert were it not to compromise her identity. That said, Abaitua presents a confident performance and the visual effects recreate something of the terror faced by many living amidst these troubles, but auteur Agustín Díaz Yanes seems a little unsure how far he wants to push the threat elements here. It's worth a watch, though, but just a little disappointing.

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