if you where run over by the miramax foreign film juggernaut and then you miss this brilliant gem tuck away in one those twenty seat cinema theater . a film be very much like a painting and meant to be see not discuss or explain . so let u just leave it at ee it . benito zambrano talent on the other hand merit more than a discussion . a sensitive director and a poignant writer . in many way solas remind me of another gem in the dust heavy . benito manage to keep the movie so simple and that it hurt . his flare for observe and then relay in his film the raw human angst and be inspire . the actor for there part and rise to the greatness of the moment . bz make u cling to hope by our finger nail while steadily add to our foot the weight of reality . but then and isn not that life . to look for hope in solas be to look for simplicity in guernica . it there and you just need to see it . and like all good thing in life this one be elusive too . no video or a dvd release yet . once again and it live up to it name .