The Legacy of the Bones

The Legacy of the Bones (Spanish: Legado en los huesos) is a 2019 Spanish supernatural crime-thriller film directed by Fernando González Molina.[1] The film is the second in the Baztán Trilogy and is an adaptation based on the eponymous novel by Dolores Redondo.[2] It is a sequel to the 2017 thriller film The Invisible Guardian and is followed by Offering to the Storm.

The Legacy of the Bones
Film poster
Directed byFernando González Molina
Based onBaztán Trilogy novel by Dolores Redondo
StarringMarta Etura
Elvira Mínguez
Music byFernando Velázquez
Release date
  • October 2019 (2019-10) (Spain)
  • 17 April 2020 (2020-04-17)
Running time
119 minutes
CountrySpain
Germany
LanguageSpanish
Basque
English

Plot

Amaia Salazar (Marta Etura) returns to the Baztán valley to investigate the suicides that have a mysterious and jarring pattern. She believes that the suicide cases are linked to a murder case which she solved in Northern Spain a year before. Salazar, who has since given birth to a baby boy, returns as a detective from The Invisible Guardian and leads the investigation. She also has to confront the challenges of her mentally ill and disturbed mother Rosario (Miren Gaztanaga).

At the City Court waiting for the trial of Jason Medina, accused of rape, mutilation and killing his stepdaughter Johana Márquez. But just before the trial can commence, Medina is found in the court's bathroom after committing suicide by cutting open his veins, leaving a little note in a pocket of his jeans with just one word written: "Tartallo".

The event causes that Amaia's breaks waters to birth a son; Ibai. The couple, Amaia and her American husband, James celebrate the birth of their fist child. Reinstated to the active service four months later, Amaia is called by her superior to give two different cases: Monseñor Landero and Padre Sarasola requested Amaia specifically to investigate with secrecy the profanation of a little church where a baby's amputated arm was found in the altar. A man incarcerated in Logroño (autonomous community of La Rioja's capital) by his wife's killing has sent her a note revealing where is his wife's corpse with "Tarttalo" in the message. He commits suicide after to give the note to a prison guard. Amaia finds a link to the "Tartallo" message to the pile of bones which her team had found the year before. She finds that "Tartallo" refers to an old Middle Age legend by the Spanish Inquisition. Due to its pagan beliefs and rites, Tartallo is the name of an ancient myth (a giant who eaten Christians, specifically christian babies so that babies do not grow up to be Christian),

in the meantime, Amaia and her family move to Elizondo after her Aunt Engrasi mentions the abandoned house in which her grandmother left behind. She meets the groundskeeper, but finds it odd when he does not greet her back after waving at him. Engrasi mentions that he does not speak much and is estranged by his son.

Amaia asks help by video-conference to her former mentor and FBI's agent Aloisius Dupree, at the same time Aunt Engrasi uses tarot to predict what could will be happen and judge Javier Markina follows with the investigation with great attention. Amaia constant calls to work causes a rift in her relationship with James, despite him moving to Elizondo in hopes to grow the family. However, the case makes a dramatic twist by double-entry: amputated baby's arm is revealed to be Amaia's twin sister she never knew that existed.

A flashback takes back to when Rosario attempts to kill her twin babies, it is only when Amaia's father intervenes, Amaia is saved, but it is too late for the other twin.

Salazar finds the courage to visit her mother to confront her about this attack but is instead called in, after a reports of an attack from the clinic on an orderly. A blood-written message of "Tarttalo" is found under the bed, causing of re-apparition of the enigmatic psychiatrist Padre Saralosa. Padre, interested in Rosario tries to convince Amaia to move Rosario to Saralosa's hospital university he leads.

Forced to look into her family past, Amaia discovers the relation between her mother and a sect dedicated to a pagan cult that included human sacrifices, but that all the crimes are connected with her.

Amaia asks for the psychiatric consultations, which were filmed, between the doctor and her mother, She discovers that the doctor is in fact, groundskeeper's estranged son, involved in pagan acts. She also then realises that her mother intends to kill her son. She immediately calls Rosauro to save Ibai but Elizondo is flooded and Rosauro becomes too late in saving Ibai. Rosauro finds an unconscious Engrasi and the baby gone. Jonan and Amaia drive on to find Rosario and Doctor Berasategui ready to sacrifice the baby. Amaia shoots to stop the sacrifice. Rosario then realises that the baby is a boy and not a girl as intended. She says to Amaia that she was successful in sacrificing her sister but not done with Amaia. She then disappears.

Amaia puts her sisters bones to rest in her back yard of the large house, but her mother is still nowhere to be found.

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Cast

Sequel

The sequel to this film titled Offering to the Storm was planned to be released on 27 March 2020, but the release was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. It is the last film in the Baztán Trilogy and was released on 24 July 2020 on Netflix.[4][5]

Release

The Legacy of the Bones was released in Spain in October 2019 and was subsequently streamed via Netflix on 17 April 2020.[6][7] Netflix unveiled the official trailer of the film on 12 April 2020 and the film release was opened to mixed reviews from critics.[8][9] The film was premiered at the 2019 Sitges Film Festival on 5 December 2019.[10]

References
  1. "Llega a los cines el esperado 'Legado de los huesos', la segunda entrega de la trilogía del Baztán cargada de emoción y mucha intriga". LaSexta (in Spanish). 2019-12-01. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  2. "The Legacy of the Bones – Review | Netflix Thriller". Heaven of Horror. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  3. Legado en los huesos (2019) (in Spanish), retrieved 2020-05-01
  4. Rivera, Alfonso (24 July 2020). "Review: Offering to the Storm". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  5. "'Ofrenda a la tormenta': este es el cartel oficial de última película que cierra la Trilogía del Baztán". AtresMediaCine (in Spanish). 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. "El". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  7. ""The Legacy of the Bones" Review: A Spanish Supernatural Thriller on Netflix with an Endless String Of Mysteries and an Intense Plot". Honk News. 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  8. "'The Legacy Of The Bones' Review: Spanish thriller blends themes of religion and evil to visual perfection". meaww.com. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  9. "The Legacy of the Bones review - Netflix film is too slow and methodical". Ready Steady Cut. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  10. Press, Europa (2019-10-10). "El Festival de Sitges acoge la "emocional" adaptación de 'Legado en los huesos' de Dolores Redondo". europapress.es. Retrieved 2020-05-01.


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