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In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they’re joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico’s past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose – a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?
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Álvaro is a man from Sevilla (Andalucía, south to Spain). Poor and clumsy, without imagination and inspiration to write, he works as accountant in a notary and he is married with Amanda, who unexpectedly became famous after to write her first novel. Dreaming with to make the great novel of all times and surpass Amanda, Álvaro goes to night class of literature, asking help to the teacher José in order to find the keys to make it. After discovering Amanda being unfaithful with another man, Álvaro is suggested by his boss Don Alfonso to make a little vacations. Moving to a new building, Álvaro passes the days trying to write in an insistently and obsessively way, with any success. Meeting his new neighbors, among them are Enrique and Irene (two Mexican immigrants with money troubles by the imminent dismissal of Enrique of his work), Sr. Montero (an old man and former military, with extreme right-wing ideas from the old Franco’s Regime), and the caretaker of the building, an unsatisfied …Read More »

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Yes, a bullfighting movie

It is increasingly rare, within a very fragmented public opinion, where there are few common facts or experiences, for a work of art to provoke what we could call a cultural event. That is to say, that it becomes an event of sufficient importance to channel public debate and to signify, in a certain sphere, a memorable event. Tardes de soledad, the film by Albert Serra, starring the maestro Roca Rey, has achieved something like this. Since its premiere in San Sebastian, this work has aroused a reflection that goes far beyond the criticism itself and that this is so is explained, I think, because we are facing a creation that places us in a stark and unusual way, to such atavistic questions as what is the value of life, what is man, what is art and what is the freedom of the artist. And all this, of course, without hiding the certain fact of death. Tardes de soledad somehow forces you to think in shock.Read More »

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A cinéma-du-réel documentary by spanish film-maker Jaime Chávarri about the family of the controversial poet from the generation of ’36 Leopoldo Panero.

In 1976, Jaime Chávarri begins the shooting of what was supposed to be an illustrated report about the father of the Panero family: Leopoldo Panero. The material turns into the film El Desencanto (The Disenchantment) which will end up being a symbol of the family and of the age and will be considered a cult film by a whole generation. In the first half of El Desencanto, the mother, paradoxically called Felicidad (Happiness), and two of her sons, describe the poet with their memories. Though he does not appear in the film himself, (no pictures, no video excerpts), he is the ghost that haunts this family.Read More »

A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him – Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love. A reverie on the edge of ambivalence and gender.Read More »

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An old empty mansion. The ghost of a man who lived there returns to recall the crucial moments of a lifetime. Faced with the proximity of death, the experiences of his past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives crucial moments of his life and his family, from 1915 to 1966, almost always linked to the names of several women. Memories that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
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Ana, who works on the Committee for the release of some suspected terrorists sentenced to death, suffers a faint. Her uncle Norman, a former doctor who was withdrawn from the drug smuggling license, offers her a remedy that could cure her brain disease, but warns Ana that it can also have consequences: it produces such a dis-inhibition that the patient lies beyond good and evil, ethics and convictions.Read More »

The world had ended. He thought he was alone.Read More »

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When Raquel was a little girl she could not understand why everyone talked constantly about love on the radio, on TV, in Saturday afternoon films and specially in songs. She always wondered what would happen if she did not find anyone who would love her.
When Raquel moves in with Tomas, she will have to ask herself what she would be willing to do for love. She will discover how beautiful, and at the same how difficult, it is to truly love someone.Read More »