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Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera’s search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz.

Foremost.by.Night.2023.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English, French

The post Víctor Iriarte – Sobre todo de noche AKA Foremost by Night (2023) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.

Close.Your.Eyes.2023.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-HAYU.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 42 min
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Language(s):Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Chinese
Subtitles:English

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In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Carlos Saura – Cría cuervos AKA Raise Ravens (1976) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Nest (Spanish: El Nido) is a 1980 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime de Armiñán, starring Héctor Alterio and Ana Torrent.The plot follows the emotionally intense relationship between an old widower and a precocious thirteen-year-old girl. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards.

In a small village near Salamanca, Alejandro, a rich 60 years old widower falls in love with Goyita, a 13-year-old girl who lives in a modern but rustic country house. Alejandro lives a purposeless life filled by a computer chess, horseback riding, and an elaborate stereo system to which he conducts to the sounds of Haydn’s Creation. His wife died several years earlier and they did not have children. Their meeting is well planned by Goyita, who pelts Alejandro with bird’s eggs while they are in the woods one day-both have a fondness for identifying birds and hunting for bird’s nests. He subsequently identifies her as the young student playing Lady Macbeth in the local village play.

Because this serious, mature and reflective teenager is just as alone as Alejandro when they met, she insinuates herself into his life and a strange, overpowering relationship develops between them, at first platonic but later with covert sexual overtones. The older man acts much like a child and later forbids Goyita to see him. Goyita, the daughter of a civil Guardsman, makes more elaborate demands upon Alejandro.

7.23GB | 1h 48mn | 1208×720 | mkv

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Jaime de Armiñán – El nido AKA The Nest (1980) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Like many of the other commentators here, I had heard about this movie long before I had ever had a chance to see it, although it typically is mentioned as one of Spain’s greatest films. It definitely is. It is masterfully directed and I have not been able to stop thinking about it for days.

The story is elliptically told and demands your participation in making sense of the narrative, but it’s also leisurely paced and allows you to breathe in the atmosphere rather than forcing a particular reading on you. One thing you wouldn’t guess from reading the other comments is how this is as much a film about nature as about history–it is like a poem of the countryside in winter, with long vistas of stone farmhouses framed against the rising sun. The film with the most similar visual palette is Malick’s “Days of Heaven”, but that film feels simplistic compared to the full immersion in history and memory presented in this film–a much more complete vision of the past.

Ana Torrent is unforgettable. I can think of no better film about children, yet (as with so many other things in this movie) it doesn’t feel forced–these kids aren’t just the director’s pawns, but real, living beings.

If you get a chance to see it, definitely make the effort.

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Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Víctor Erice – El espíritu de la colmena AKA The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Spanish director and scriptwriter Alejandro Amenábar has gotten a fair amount of attention in the English-speaking world of late, and well-deserved it is. At the moment, he is probably best known for directing The Others, as well as directing and writing Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos), the outstanding film that spawned a totally unnecessary remake in Vanilla Sky. Amenábar’s film Thesis (original title: Tesis) takes us back to 1996, where we can see that his success is no fluke: it has been in the cards from the beginning.

Thesis was director/writer Alejandro Amenábar’s first feature film, made when he was only 23 after deciding to stop studying film and start making it. The film Thesis begins with Ángela (Ana Torrent), a film student at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (as Amenábar was) who is working on a thesis on audiovisual violence in the media. Her research leads her toward more and more extreme examples of media violence, putting her in contact with a fellow student, Chema (Fele Martínez), who has an extensive collection of gory videos. But the real horror starts when she stumbles across evidence that behind the urban legend of “snuff” films there lies a horrifying reality… and that the murderous filmmakers involved know that she knows too much.

Though it is in fact a very entertaining, tension-filled thriller, Thesis is more than that; the film is self-reflective and critical, both of the film industry and of viewers themselves, even as they watch the movie. Throughout the film, Thesis circles around a dark dichotomy in human behavior: we don’t want to look, but we are compelled to anyway; we want to reject violence, but it draws us in. The opening scene of the film encapsulates this theme, hinting at the greater development of it in the film: Ángela is coming home on the Madrid subway when the train halts unexpectedly; the conductor informs them that a man has just committed suicide by throwing himself in front of the train. “Don’t look,” he says, but can’t help adding, “he’s been cut in two.” The faces of the disembarking passengers are filled with horror and disgust, yet they crowd around trying to get a look at the gruesome scene before they are herded away.

The character of Ángela is a perfect stand-in for the viewer in this way. Unlike the more openly voyeuristic Chema, she claims that her interest in violence is strictly academic: for her thesis. Yet we can’t help but realize that she is secretly drawn to it as well; realizing this, it disgusts her, but still compels her. Both Torrent and Martínez give us believable characters who also manage to break stereotyped “thriller” conventions about the behavior of male and female characters; they are, and remain, well-rounded and interesting characters who develop as the story unfolds. Thesis also features a young-looking Eduardo Noriega as Bosco; he appears in the protagonist’s role in Amenábar’s next film, Open Your Eyes.

From beginning to end, Thesis takes a hard look at “violence as entertainment,” pushing the viewer to be more self-aware, to recognize the potential for violence that exists within all of us and the possible consequences of satisfying some of our darker desires. The film asks, is “what the public wants” always right? Where should a filmmaker draw the line? Is there a hidden hypocrisy in the fact that we are both repelled and attracted by scenes of violence? Link

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Subtitles:English

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