Category Archives: Cinema

Penélope Velasco in “Café Solo o con Ellas” [2007 Spain]

Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo’s debut film “Café Solo o con Ellas” [Eng. Title: Love Espresso] is a fairly ordinary brat-pack comedy set in Madrid – all the characters are cliché. The film’s about a group of guys – friends, and their … Continue reading

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Isabella Ferrari in “Amatemi” [2005 Italy]

Renato De Maria’s 2005 drama, “Amatemi” [Eng. Title: Love Me] is a woman’s quest for love and a meaning in her life, after her husband of twenty years suddenly decides to separate. Nina, an announcer at a supermarket returns home … Continue reading

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Omahyra Mota & Karin Viard in “Les Derniers Jours du Monde” [2009 France, Spain]

Larrieu brothers’ (Arnard and Jean-Marie) most recent film, “Les Derniers Jours du Monde” [Eng. title: The Last Days of the World, Festival Title: Happy End] is a typically French take on the apocalypse theme – generally the preserve of Hollywood blockbusters. … Continue reading

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Rita Rusic in “Attila, Flagello di Dio” BR1080 [1982 Italy]

Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia made this bawdy historical spoof, “Attila, Flagello di Dio” [Eng. Title: Attila, Wrath of God] with popular comedian Diego Abatantuono. Apparently this film had attained a cult status among a particular generation of Italians for … Continue reading

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Isabel Cristina Cadavidad & Linda Lucía Callejas in “Sin Tetas no Hay Paraiso” [2010 Colombia]

Colombian writer/director Gustavo Bolívar remade his earlier TV series “Sin Tetas no Hay Paraìso” [Eng. Trans: No Paradise Without Tits] for the big screen in 2010, and apparently it was still a huge success. It chronicles the completely misguided life … Continue reading

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