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Category Archives: Spanish Cinema
Scenes from “El Guachimán” [2011 Peru]
Pin it!It is not often that we get to review films like this, but since Gastón Vizcarra’s low-brow comedy “El Guachimán” [The Watchman] isn’t particularly making waves anywhere else, it is perhaps reason enough to find out why.
Alejandrino Falopio (Guillermo … Continue reading
Posted in Peru
Tagged Anahí de Cárdenas, Latin America, Peru, spanish, Spanish mainstream cinema
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Todo es Silencio [2012 Spain]
Pin it!I haven’t seen that many films by Spanish director José Luis Cuerda, and therefore not best placed to offer any useful criticism of his work. But I can safely claim that his latest film “Todo es silencio” [Eng. Title: … Continue reading
Posted in Spain
Tagged frontal nudity, groping, Spain, spanish, Spanish mainstream cinema
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Identifying one’s Morality through Sin, “Joven y alocada” [2012 Chile]
Pin it!Young Chilean director Marialy Riva spars with religion and ingrained attitudes towards sex in her country through the drama “Joven y alocada” [Eng. Title: Young and Wild].
Storyline:
Narrated through a precocious teenager’s astonishingly detailed blog entries, we follow the sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Chile
Tagged Chile, Latin America, lesbian and gay interest, spanish, Spanish mainstream cinema
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Beginning of a new era symbolised in “Mamá cumple 100 años” [1979 Spain]
Pin it!Few can claim to have helped showcase Flamenco – the quintessentially Spanish music and dance form, to a global audience as successfully as Carlos Saura. One of Spain’s favourite directors (and mine too), Sr. Saura is a traditionalist – … Continue reading
Posted in Carlos Saura, Spain
Tagged Amparo Muñoz, Carlos Saura, Destape, frontal nudity, Highly Recommended, Spain, spanish, Spanish mainstream cinema
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Life, fiction, and blah blah blah… “Bonsái” [2011 Chile]
Pin it!Young directors like Cristián Jiménez are proof that cinema is alive and well in Chile, and Latin America in general. “Bonsái” may only be the second feature directed and scripted by Jiménez, but his ambitiousness is already plain to … Continue reading
Posted in Chile
Tagged Chile, Cristián Jiménez, frontal nudity, Highly Recommended, Latin America, spanish, Spanish mainstream cinema
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