Rafael Cobos is Alberto Rodriguez’s main screenwriter and has collaborated on almost all of his films. Now he makes his directorial debut with “Couples” (he previously directed a miniseries called “The Left Handed Son”), a film with the feel and timbre of the 1980s, the time in which the story takes place, deeply imbued with the spirit of “Fifth Cinema.” His main character is Migueli, a small-time thief who is not part of the gang for whom the script provides many excuses, familial, social and personal, to put him on the good side of the story. References and sequences of his childhood with his father and older brother Sabino, fate and injustice… See more