Today, when it seems that cinema can talk about everything and show everything, it is at least significant that the place most films don't dare to go is the world of work, precisely what determines the daily lives of most of the population. It is one of capitalism's great triumphs: turning work into a kind of dramatic taboo, a residue where fictions don't bother to linger, lest we begin to question the meaning or the fairness of the activity that occupies our routines. Fortunately, there are still some filmmakers committed to making clear what their antiheroes live (and die) by, as is the case with Alberto Rodríguez.

If a Netflix production opened the San Sebastian Festival on Friday, this Saturday it was Movistar+ who presented the first great Spanish film in the competition, the thriller by Alberto Rodríguez The tigersFor now, the platforms are considering the cherries of audiovisual productions, which includes festivals. The tigers It is a good film, surely the most well-rounded by its director since The minimal island and, unlike this one and Model 77, has no historical or sociological ambitions and is therefore more solid in the construction of the plot and the characters. The protagonists are two submariner brothers from Huelva (Antonio de la Torre and Barbara Lennie), children and grandchildren of scuba divers, who work doing repairs or maintenance on oil platforms and ships, a kind of miners of the sea who risk their lives every day for four duros.