After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room… and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they’ve built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals…Read More »
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Stirred by her resemblance to his late wife, he attempts to seduce her and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle’s estate. But little good comes from these good intentions.Read More »
An indoor game where a couple come to the conclusion after doing and saying many things, that the only way out is anarchy.
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Padrós’ films have a clear personal character and they maintain a kind of narrative, with strong ironic and critical overtones. In his earlier films his criticisms were mostly directed against the false progressive attitudes that were common among certain groups of the young at that time, and also towards the boring transcendental themes that were fashionable then (non-communication, alienation, sexual repression, ideological fashions, cultural mythologies. . .)Read More »
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Alice is born in a country that is dead. Later, her innocence will be manipulated by ideologies of moment.
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Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb is a 1969 film drawing loose inspiration from Alice in Wonderland. It combines a soundtrack including Cream and Tuli Kupferberg, with scenes shot in Terrassa’s cemetery, to express a protest against American imperialism and the Vietnam War.Read More »
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Sex and Lucía, not surprisingly, boasts ample doses of both sex and Lucía, but its rather straightforward title doesn’t begin to intimate what a simultaneously confounding and enticing experience the film really is. Julio Medem’s sumptuous, smoldering, and ultimately confusing fable begins in the middle, with Lucía (the fiery Paz Vega) fleeing her home after thinking her novelist boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) has killed himself. The film’s first half jumps back and forth between the past and present, cross-cutting between the couple’s passionate first steps together (shot graphically, but not lewdly) and Lucía’s self-imposed exile on a mysterious island off the coast of Spain that Lorenzo spoke of reverently but refused to visit with her.Read More »
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Hildegart Rodríguez, a precocious and prolific writer in Spain’s 1930s, raised by her mother to become a model of future women.Read More »
A lonely, religious, older woman meets a strange girl in a graveyard. A young woman named Anabel mistakes a poor woman for her deceased mother. The woman, who shares an uncanny physical resemblance to the dead mother, accepts her role, since it represents a social advancement for her. However, a cousin of Anabel’s interferes with the aim of taking over the inheritance.
Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival.Read More »
