I Know Who You Are review – subtle, classy, cool
This fabulous-looking Spanish drama gets new life out of the man-with-amnesia plot, as a hotshot law..
This fabulous-looking Spanish drama gets new life out of the man-with-amnesia plot, as a hotshot lawyer finds himself under attack from all sides
A bloodied man walks down the centre of a country road accompanied by urgent, discordant music. He doesn’t remember anything, not even who he is. Ah yes, amnesia, that old chestnut. A Spanish chestnut this time because I Know Who You Are (BBC4, Saturday), the latest foreign import to fill the Borgen slot, hails from Spain. Iberian noir? Ibérico negra? That sounds more like very expensive ham. And actually IKWYA (or Sé Quién Eres if you want to be a pretentious tosser) isn’t … isn’t hammy. It’s understated, and pretty damn cool.
So, this man finds out (unless he knows all along, of course) that he’s a bigshot lawyer called Juan Elias, and he’s married to a bigshot judge named Alicia Castro. They’re like Barcelona’s legal power couple, and they live in a beautiful out-of-town modern house – all wood and concrete and open-plan – with two lovely children: Julieta (who Juan watches films with, he finds out) and Pol (with whom he shares an aversion to soya, and occasionally an after-dinner spliff).
