To Die in San Hilario (12A) <!-- none onestar twostar threestar fourstar fivestar -->

Anthony Quinn
Friday 11 August 2006 00:00 BST
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This Spanish comedy of mistaken identity has a gentle tone of goodwill, serviceable performances, but no laughs, so its hour-and-a-half running time feels much longer. Lluis Homar plays a 1930s gangster on the run who stops at the no-horse town of San Hilario and is mistaken by the locals for a mysterious benefactor who has come to spend his last days there and be buried in cemetery. Homar has a faint look of Laurence Olivier, and a fine brooding countenance, but the story he has to carry is about as wieldy as a coffin with splinters.

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