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Ana and Erik, two people apparently with opposite lives meet at a sex chat one day. She is an adult woman with a resolved life but has an existential crisis. He is a teenager with a whole life ahead of him with many unknowns.Read More »

“…a queer, feminist road movie, both hilarious and militant, which urges us to tackle life head-on without fear of the future…” Cineuropa

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Travelling across an Andalusia reminiscent of the Wild West (the film’s 16mm format being incredibly helpful in this respect), our antiheroes and antiheroines follow their instincts and decide to take on the present with the delightful carefreeness and arrogance of youth, without worrying about the future. Music, dance and traditions linked to a land where Flamenco reigns supreme infuse each and every frame, reminding us that emotions matter more than rationality. A tribute to Gonzalo García Pelayo’s cult Spanish movie Corridas de alegría, On the Go is a road movie where nothing is planned and everything appears to be incredibly easy…Read More »

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A woman is granted a separation from her husband and through a flashback her various battles with life’s wolves are recounted.
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This is Jean Grémillons version of José Serrano’s zarzuela, shot in Spain, complete with songs. A fascinating example of Grémillon’s lifelong attempt to engage music and cinema.Read More »

Bruno juggles between taking care of his grandmother Nati, working and living his youth. So when Nati gets a public spot in an elderly home, he must face the prospect of letting go the only family he has ever known.Read More »

Nearly twenty years after the events of “The Girl of Your Dreams.” in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.Read More »

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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 »