"Shadows have teeth, and they bite" did the protagonist of this suspense mean his own end? Aranda has made Mempo Giardinelli's La Luna caliente amazing, not only by taking it to the Francoist context, with the backdrop of the process against the ETA members and the pending accounts for Spain barely alleviating the social consequences of the dictatorship, but splashing with unheard of intertextuality by Robert Stevenson and a string of cynical aphorisms in the plot whose protagonist, the writer Juan Villa Márquez, -unlike the engineer in the 1985 version of Roberto Denis, flatter- progressively envelops us in an absorbing climate of doubling through lá Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and paranoia: for the rape of the beautiful Ramona, daughter…
