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The Basque Ball. The Skin Against the Stone (2003) is a documentary motion picture by Spanish filmaker Julio Medem. The film's intention is to create a bridge between the different political postions that coexist, sometime violently, in the Basque Country. In order to do so, Medem edits the interviews giving a sense of dialogue between the parties that refused to sit down and talk. The film is very condensed and can be hard to understand to audiences without previous knowledge of the conflict. Although ascetically the movie moves away of the dreamy feeling of previous Medem films, there are diverse interesting cinematographical choices: the traveling camera movement used to introduce the interviews, the lack of a narrator and the helicopter shots that, with the help of the score by Mikel Laboa, effectively transport the audiences to the Basque Country.

The movie has been openly critized by both extremes, and Medem has been accused of being both pro-ETA and pro-"spanish occupation".

There is a DVD special edition released with seven hours of footage that goes deeper into the history of the Basque Country.

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-'''The Basque Ball. The Skin Against the Stone''' (2003) is a [[documentary]] [[motion picture]] by [[Spanish]] filmaker [[Julio Medem]]. The film's intention is to create a bridge between the different political postions that coexist, sometime violently, in the [[Basque Country]]. In order to do so, Medem edits the interviews giving a sense of dialogue between the parties that refused to sit down and talk. The film is very condensed and can be hard to understand to audiences without previous knowledge of the conflict. Although ascetically the movie moves away of the dreamy feeling of previous Medem films there are diverse interesting cinematographical choices: the traveling camera movement used to introducethe interviewes, the lack of a narrator and the helicopter shoots that, with the help of the score by [[Mikel Laboa]], effettively transport the audiences to the [[Basque Country]].
+'''The Basque Ball. The Skin Against the Stone''' (2003) is a [[documentary]] [[motion picture]] by [[Spanish]] filmaker [[Julio Medem]]. The film's intention is to create a bridge between the different political postions that coexist, sometime violently, in the [[Basque Country]]. In order to do so, Medem edits the interviews giving a sense of dialogue between the parties that refused to sit down and talk. The film is very condensed and can be hard to understand to audiences without previous knowledge of the conflict. Although ascetically the movie moves away of the dreamy feeling of previous Medem films, there are diverse interesting cinematographical choices: the traveling camera movement used to introduce the interviews, the lack of a narrator and the helicopter shots that, with the help of the score by [[Mikel Laboa]], effectively transport the audiences to the Basque Country.
-The movie has been openly critizy by both extremes and [[Julio Medem]] has been accused of being both pro-[[ETA]] and pro-"spanish occupation".
+The movie has been openly critized by both extremes, and Medem has been accused of being both pro-[[ETA]] and pro-"spanish occupation".
-There is a DVD special edition released with seven hours of footage that goes deeper into the history of the [[Basque Country]].
+There is a DVD special edition released with seven hours of footage that goes deeper into the history of the Basque Country.