{ "id": "ep747qwak3", "slug": "adios", "title": "Adiós", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "label": "Crime, thriller, and mystery films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films", "label": "2015–2019 films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films.crime-drama-and-neo-noir-films", "label": "Crime drama and neo-noir films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films.crime-drama-and-neo-noir-films" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020: 2015–2019 films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "label": "Crime, thriller, and mystery films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films", "label": "2015–2019 films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Adiós is a 2019 Spanish thriller directed by Paco Cabezas, starring Mario Casas, Natalia de Molina, and Ruth Díaz, set in Seville's Las 3,000 Viviendas, where a girl's accidental death exposes police corruption and drug trafficking; distinct from Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós (2017).", "snippet": "Adiós is a 2019 Spanish thriller directed by Paco Cabezas, starring Mario Casas, Natalia de Molina, and Ruth Díaz, set in Seville's Las 3,000 Viviendas, where a girl's accidental death exposes police corruption and drug trafficking; distinct from Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós (2017).", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.2015-2019-films.crime-drama-and-neo-noir-films", "markdown": "# Adiós\n\n**Adiós** is a 2019 Spanish thriller directed by Paco Cabezas, set in the Las 3,000 Viviendas neighborhood of Seville, in which the accidental death of a young girl uncovers a network of police corruption and drug trafficking.[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) It stars [Mario Casas](https://www.edgepedia.org/mario-casas), Natalia de Molina, Ruth Díaz, and Carlos Bardem, and was released in Spanish cinemas on 22 November 2019.[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title / genre | Adiós; thriller and drama, Spain, 2019[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) |\n| Director and writers | Paco Cabezas; screenplay by Carmen Jiménez and José Rodríguez[2](https://cineuropa.org/es/film/378727/) |\n| Lead cast | Mario Casas (Juan Santos), Natalia de Molina (Triana), Ruth Díaz (Eli), Carlos Bardem (Manuel Santacana)[3](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=179018) |\n| Runtime and rating | 114 minutes; not recommended for audiences under 16[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) |\n| Spanish release | 22 November 2019; Spain gross of 1,876,623.68 euros from 320,213 admissions[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) |\n| Music | Score by Zeltia Montes; Rosalía performs \"Un largo viaje\"[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) |\n| Awards | Three Goya 2020 nominations, no wins; Natalia de Molina won the 2019 CEC Medal for best supporting actress[5](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/adios/) • [4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nJuan Santos (Mario Casas) is a con man serving a sentence with supervised release who gets a day pass to attend the [First Communion](https://www.edgepedia.org/first-communion) of his daughter Estrella in Seville.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9786512/plotsummary/) During the celebration his brother Chico and uncle Andrés offer him a scheme to smuggle drugs back into prison, which he refuses for fear of losing his prison privileges.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9786512/plotsummary/) As the family drives back toward the prison, another car rams theirs and Estrella is killed.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9786512/plotsummary/)\n\nThe case falls to Eli (Ruth Díaz), a police inspector who must contend with mistrust from part of the force and with Juan himself, who wants to take the law into his own hands.[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) Juan turns to his brutal family clan, known as Los Santos, to find out what happened and exact his own justice, while Eli tries to stop him.[7](https://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-269789/) The collision between the two over the girl's death exposes a web of secrets and lies running along what the film's synopsis calls the thin, diffuse line that is justice.[5](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/adios/)\n\nThe film is set in Las 3,000 Viviendas, a marginal neighborhood of Seville that the Spanish press describes as one of the most dangerous in Europe, where drug dealing, crime, and poverty coexist with working families and with flamenco.[8](https://contraste.info/cinema/critica-adios/) [El País](https://www.edgepedia.org/el-pais)'s critic connected the script to real events: a 1999 feud in which one family was banished from the neighborhood by decision of a so-called Council of Elders, and the death of a child that sets off a revenge plot.[9](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/20/actualidad/1574287497_206196.html)\n\n## Production\n\n**Director.** Paco Cabezas, born in Seville in 1976, had built a career in the United States directing the features Tokarev (2014) with [Nicolas Cage](https://www.edgepedia.org/nicolas-cage) and Mr. Right (2015) with [Sam Rockwell](https://www.edgepedia.org/sam-rockwell) and [Tim Roth](https://www.edgepedia.org/tim-roth), along with episodes of series including Penny Dreadful and Into the Badlands.[9](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/20/actualidad/1574287497_206196.html) With Adiós he returned to his native city to tell a story of \"his land\" with international reach.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29)\n\n**Filming.** [Principal photography](https://www.edgepedia.org/principal-photography) ran from 18 February to 10 April 2019.[10](https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Af1dc9036-2738-44a5-91c2-f251bd12b57b/rodajes-30octubre.pdf) Most of the shoot took place in Seville, with two days of filming moved to Málaga.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) On 9 April the production spent a day shooting on Calle Sevilla in Osuna, using the former church of Santa Catalina, with a crew of more than 120 people coordinated from a logistics base in the town's Casa de la Cultura.[11](https://www.osuna.es/es/cultura/noticias/Osuna-vuelve-a-ser-escenario-de-cine-con-el-rodaje-de-la-pelicula-Adios-del-director-sevillano-Paco-Cabezas/) • [12](https://www.osuna.es/es/cultura/noticias/Osuna-volvio-a-ser-escenario-de-la-nueva-pelicula-de-Paco-Cabezas-con-Mario-Casas-como-uno-de-los-protagonistas/)\n\n**Financing and premiere.** The film was produced by Adiós La Película, A.I.E. (94.99 percent), Apache Films (5 percent), and La Claqueta PC (0.01 percent), with distribution in Spain by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia.[13](https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3A1d178179-10c2-4b6d-9a4e-4932f0f6ad77/avance-largos-2019-febrero2020.pdf) RTVE, Movistar+, and other broadcasters participated in the production.[14](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC04931967) It was pre-premiered at RTVE's traditional gala at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on 26 September 2019, at the Teatro Victoria Eugenia, with Casas, de Molina, Díaz, and Bardem in attendance.[15](https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20190926/rtve-estrena-adios-festival-san-sebastian-thriller-paco-cabezas-protagonizado-por-mario-casas/1980202.shtml)\n\n## Music\n\nThe original score was composed by Zeltia Montes.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) Flamenco is central to the soundtrack: the trailer features \"Me quedo contigo\", the [Los Chunguitos](https://www.edgepedia.org/los-chunguitos) song performed by Rocío Márquez, and the film includes \"Un largo viaje\", written by José Rodríguez and Fernando Vacas and sung by Rosalía.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) The song had been recorded before the film, and its lyrics were judged to illustrate the story so well that, in the director's account, image and music tell the story without needing further explanation.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) Critics singled the soundtrack out as the film's strongest element.[16](https://mewmagazine.es/critica-de-adios-dos-peliculas-en-una/)\n\n## Reception and awards\n\nSpanish critical response was mixed to positive. SensaCine recorded a press average of 2.8 out of 5 from eight reviews and a user rating of 3.8 out of 5.[7](https://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-269789/) Javier Ocaña of El País called it an energetic thriller uniting the social, the emotional, and the spectacular, with excellent performances across the cast, while judging the final stretch too grave and noting two debatable script decisions.[9](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/20/actualidad/1574287497_206196.html) ABC's Federico Marín Bellón described a dark and at times confusing story that works thanks to its narrative pulse, its characters, and an excellent soundtrack.[17](https://www.sensacine.com.mx/peliculas/pelicula-269789/criticas-prensa/) Luis Martínez of El Mundo found the unmodulated emotional thriller ultimately numbing, and Eulàlia Iglesias of El Confidencial read the plot as having the flavor of a Lorquian tragedy that loses force when it submits to predictable thriller mechanics.[17](https://www.sensacine.com.mx/peliculas/pelicula-269789/criticas-prensa/) HobbyConsolas scored it 70 out of 100, praising the ensemble and especially Mona Martínez while faulting the uneven accents and an extreme story that is hard to enter.[18](https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reviews/critica-adios-drama-firmado-paco-cabezas-533849) On IMDb the film holds a user rating of 6.1 from about 2,200 votes.[19](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/adios)\n\nAt the 34th [Goya Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/goya-awards) the film received three nominations, for best supporting actress (Mona Martínez and Natalia de Molina) and best new actress (Pilar Gómez), and won none.[5](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/adios/) • [20](https://www.movistarplus.es/cine/adios/ficha?id=1545589&tipo=E) It had entered 22 Goya categories as a candidate for nomination, including best film, direction, and original screenplay.[5](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/adios/) At the Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for 2019, Natalia de Molina won best supporting actress, and editors Luis de la Madrid and Miguel Ángel Trudu won best editing.[4](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29) The film also received an Asecan award for best production direction at the 2020 Premios Asecan of Andalusian cinema.[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018)\n\nCommercially, the film earned 1,876,623.68 euros in Spain from 320,213 admissions.[1](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018) It later opened in Russia (15 May 2020), South Korea (22 July 2020), the United Kingdom (4 January 2021), Germany (5 November 2020), and France (14 June 2021).[21](https://www.dcine.org/adios)\n\n## Other films titled Adiós\n\nThe title has been used by other works. *Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós* (2017), directed by Lucy Walker, is a documentary following five surviving original members of the Cuban band on a final tour in Havana; it holds a 70 percent Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.[22](https://telescopefilm.com/films/244503-buena-vista-social-club-adios) • [23](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/buena_vista_social_club_adios) A separate 13-minute Spanish short film *Adiós* (English title *Bye*), directed by Mario Hernández and Álvaro G. Company, was rated for release in Spain in 2025 and won awards including best film and best direction at the Arouca Film Festival in Portugal.[24](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/en-us/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=82724)\n\n## References\n\n1. [ADIÓS, ICAA Film Database (file 179018)](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=179018)\n2. [ADIÓS, Cineuropa](https://cineuropa.org/es/film/378727/)\n3. [ADIÓS, catálogo cine español (ICAA PDF)](https://infoicaa.mcu.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=179018)\n4. [Adiós (película de 2019), Mexpedia](https://mexpedia.org/index.php/Adi%C3%B3s_%28pel%C3%ADcula_de_2019%29)\n5. [Adiós, Premios Goya](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/adios/)\n6. [Adiós (2019) Plot, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9786512/plotsummary/)\n7. [Adiós, SensaCine](https://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-269789/)\n8. [Crítica Adiós, Constraste](https://contraste.info/cinema/critica-adios/)\n9. [Adiós: La ira y el destino, El País](https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/20/actualidad/1574287497_206196.html)\n10. [Rodajes, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte (PDF)](https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Af1dc9036-2738-44a5-91c2-f251bd12b57b/rodajes-30octubre.pdf)\n11. [Osuna vuelve a ser escenario de cine con el rodaje de la película \"Adiós\", Ayuntamiento de Osuna](https://www.osuna.es/es/cultura/noticias/Osuna-vuelve-a-ser-escenario-de-cine-con-el-rodaje-de-la-pelicula-Adios-del-director-sevillano-Paco-Cabezas/)\n12. [Osuna volvió a ser escenario de la nueva película de Paco Cabezas, Ayuntamiento de Osuna](https://www.osuna.es/es/cultura/noticias/Osuna-volvio-a-ser-escenario-de-la-nueva-pelicula-de-Paco-Cabezas-con-Mario-Casas-como-uno-de-los-protagonistas/)\n13. [Avance largometrajes 2019, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte (PDF)](https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3A1d178179-10c2-4b6d-9a4e-4932f0f6ad77/avance-largos-2019-febrero2020.pdf)\n14. [Adiós, CiNii Books](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC04931967)\n15. [RTVE estrena 'Adiós' en el festival de San Sebastián, RTVE.es](https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20190926/rtve-estrena-adios-festival-san-sebastian-thriller-paco-cabezas-protagonizado-por-mario-casas/1980202.shtml)\n16. [Crítica de 'Adiós': dos películas en una, MEW Magazine](https://mewmagazine.es/critica-de-adios-dos-peliculas-en-una/)\n17. [Críticas de prensa para la película Adiós, SensaCine México](https://www.sensacine.com.mx/peliculas/pelicula-269789/criticas-prensa/)\n18. [Crítica de Adiós, un drama firmado por Paco Cabezas, HobbyConsolas](https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reviews/critica-adios-drama-firmado-paco-cabezas-533849)\n19. [Adiós streaming, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/adios)\n20. [Ver Adiós, Movistar Plus](https://www.movistarplus.es/cine/adios/ficha?id=1545589&tipo=E)\n21. [Adiós (2019), Dcine.org](https://www.dcine.org/adios)\n22. [Buena Vista Social Club: Adios, Telescope Film](https://telescopefilm.com/films/244503-buena-vista-social-club-adios)\n23. [Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/buena_vista_social_club_adios)\n24. 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