An immaculately framed feature generating uneasy amusement in the viewer and one of the standouts of the Locarno Film Festival. There’s a moment in “The Sacred Spirit,” Chema García Ibarra’s beguiling ...

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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a moment in "The Sacred Spirit," Chema García Ibarra's beguiling feature debut shot on 16mm, when viewers get ...

There’s a moment in “The Sacred Spirit,” Chema García Ibarra’s beguiling feature debut shot on 16mm, when viewers get uncomfortable wondering if the director realizes the playful tone he’s taking ...