The Best of Spanish
Fiction
SEPTEMBER
Tribute to Julio Medem and one of the best
SERIES of national fiction
Medem is on the best Spanish writer and film directors of the
decade, also recognized as a experienced film critic shows
some of his best movies this month.
La Republica, recorded in 2011 is one of the best series of the
Hispanic fiction, got important audience records in its premier.
You can not loose it…
LAGRIMAS NEGRAS
Fernando Bauluz, Ricardo Franco (1998)
Drama | Romance
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Fele Martínez, Elena Anaya
Andrés is a young photographer whose life is completely sorted out. He
has a steady job and is about to marry his longtime girlfriend, Alicia.
That is until a woman named Isabel and her mate rob him on the street.
But something about this mysterious woman will change everything.
Isabel is a tormented woman with a mental disorder, nevertheless,
Andrés can't help his attraction for her. Will this woman be his
condemnation or will he be her salvation instead ?
Valladolid International Film Festiva: Espiga de Plata Best Actress
VACAS
SPECIAL :Julio Medem
(1996)
Drama. Romance.
Cast: Silke, Nancho Novo, Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez,
Karra Elejalde, Txema Blasco, Ane Sánchez, Juan José
Suárez
Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital,
comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local
wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving
their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in
town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different
women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these
women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or
that he routinely speaks with the diseased townspeople?
Cannes Film Festival: Best Picture Nomination
LA ARDILLA ROJA
SPECIAL :Julio Medem
(1993)
Drama. Romance. Comedy
Cast: Carmelo Gómez, Nancho Novo, Emma Suárez, Karra
Elejalde, María Barranco, Cristina Marcos, Elena
Irureta, Ana Gracia, Mónica Molina
Lisa suffers a motorcycle accident and loses her memory. Jota is a
musician, desperate after separating from his girlfriend. When he
meets Lisa he takes advantage of the situation and reinvents her life
according to his desiresde un coche rojo
Cannes Film Festival : Youthfull Award
VACAS
SPECIAL :Julio Medem
(1992)
Drama. Romance.
Cast:, Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Ana Torrent, Karra
Elejalde, Miguel Ángel García, Pilar Bardem,
A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875
and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how
one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three
generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will
span the next sixty-one
Goya Best Director. 4 nominations
Montreal Film Festival : Best Opera Prima Award
Tokyo International Film Festival: Gold Award
YOU ARE THE ONE
DE JOSE LUIS GARCI (2000)
)
Drama
Casting: Lydia Bosch, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Juan Diego,
Ana Fernández, Iñaki Miramón, Manuel Lozano, Fernando
Guillén
Spain, end of the 40´s. Julia suffers a deep depression
because of the imprisonment of his boyfriend, an outstanding anti system painter. The only daughter of a wealthy
family, is an educated woman, who has been educated in
Switzerland and England, has graduated in Philosophy and
wants to be a writer. Her discouragement is such that
decides to move away from Madrid and to be going to spend
a season to the small Asturian village of Cerralbos.
5 Goya Awards
Silver Bear. Berlin Film Festival
UNA PALABRA TUYA
BY ANGELES GONZALEZ SINDE (2008)
Drama
Cast:
Ramiro Alonso, Malena Alterio, Catalina
Batista
The tragedy of usual lives, relationship bordering on
friendship and love, loneliness, family ties and moral
obligations - the movie manages to cover so much
problems in such short timing. And the soundtrack,
perfectly matches the action on the screen and sets just
the right tone and mood to every scene.
Screen play based in the novel of Elvira Lindo, a Spanish
journalist and writer. she received the Biblioteca Breve
(Tiny Library) Award for this novel.
Goya Awards: 4 nomination including Best Script Adaptation
LA REPUBLICA
BY JORDI FRADES (2011)
Drama/Romance
Casting: Verónica Sánchez, Alejo Sauras, Lucía
Jiménez, Álex Angulo, Marta Belaustegui,
Fernando Cayo, Úrsula Corberó,…….
Series of TV (2011-Now-On). Spring of 1931. The
proclamation in Madrid of the 2nd Republic uses as backdrop
of histories of impossible loves and very determined by the
circumstances of the epoch. The events centers on the
prestigious family De la Torre, owner of an estate in the field,
where he passed the most nice moments of his life. A
fascinating time replete with plots that develop in a key
period in the history of Spain, and that includes, the first
period of two years of the new Government, from 1931 up to
the winter of 1933, when the conservative parties defeat the
republican government.
RAMON Y CAJAL
BY JOSE MARIA FORQUE
(1982)
Drama/Biopic
Casting: Adolfo Marsillach, Verónica Forqué,
Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Encarna Paso, Fernando
Valverde
TV series of nine episodes, about the life of
Ramon y Cajal, a Spanish pathologist, histologist,
neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate. His original
pioneering investigations of the microscopic
structure of the brain have led his being
designated by many, as the father of modern
neuroscience. His medical artistry was legendary.