‘Memory’ and other premieres

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‘In Else Place’, ‘Toscana’, ‘The skin on fire’ and ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ are some of the premieres this weekend

International festivals such as Cannes – where he received the Jury Prize – or Seville have included in their programming the latest proposal by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the most recognized author’s voices of the moment. This time, the Thai filmmaker proposes a quirky journey that goes hand in hand with Tilda Swinton’s acting talent. It places the action in Colombia, in its great cities and jungle landscapes… «to destroy the boundaries of space and time while rebuilding; so that we relate to the world differently when we leave the cinema». Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Juan Pablo Urrego complete the central casting.

Miguel Ángel Muñoz and Pablo Puyol, protagonists in their time of the successful series ‘Un Paso Adel’, star together with Mexican actress Esmeralda Pimentel in a film initially shot under the title ‘Dos vacas y una burra’. As a romantic comedy, Jesús del Cerro, director of ‘Médico de familia’ and other television hits, presents an optimistic story about rural life as an alternative. Shot in Santander and in the Cantabrian towns of Esles, Vega de Pas and Liérganes, it presents an idyllic setting where the main characters find themselves, hypnotized by the landscape and the local people.

Featuring a poster illustrated by the cartoonist Paco Alcázar (‘Silvio José’), this character comedy written and directed by Pau Durá, who worked with José Sacristán himself on ‘Formentera Lady’, is presented. Eduard Soto and Malena Alterio lead the cast of this portrait of a personal crisis. With a vial of sperm in his pocket, on his way to the clinic where his wife is waiting for him for in vitro fertilization, the entanglement’s protagonist has a motorcycle accident that takes him, seeking help, to a restaurant where a fired chef claims the settlement to his wife. boss with a shotgun.

Shown at the Malaga festival, ‘La piel en llamas’ tells the story of a war photographer, played by Óscar Jaenada, who returns twenty years later to the country where he took a photo that brought him international fame. The image showed a girl flying through the air as a result of a bomb explosion. David Martín Porras (‘The Chain’) directs this drama with a message. “The enormous precision with which the photographic image reproduces human vision elevates it to the category of absolute truth,” says the director. “If there’s graphic documentation of anything, it’s that it existed. If not, there will always be doubt. We assume that photography does not lie. It is considered irrefutable evidence. However, it is still a representation of reality with a certain frame from a specific point of view and qualities of brightness and focal length that can make it as subjective as a written text. Ella Kweku, Fernando Tejero and Lidia Nené complete the main cast.

First feature film by director Mounia Akl, it premiered at the last edition of the Venice Film Festival. Awarded the Jury Prize at the Seville Festival, the film stars Nadine Labaki, Yumna Marwan, Saleh Bakri and Nadia Chancel. It offers the viewer a reflection on the family, but also a contemporary view of issues related to the environment and the friction between nature and the city. “I try to make the structure of the main family to some extent reflect that of our society,” says the filmmaker. “The protagonist family’s ideal of preserving its purity by ignoring society is an escapist fantasy. But out of the rift and disagreement arises an opportunity for the family and for Lebanon: a clear reconstruction, based on truth and compassion.

Álvaro Gurrea’s debut as a complete author with the same story, told multiple times from different perspectives. A group of miners carries large sulfur rocks to the side of the Kawa Ijen crater every day. Some events involving the protagonist are transformed as beliefs change, from animism to Islam to capitalism. “An ethnofiction film that explores otherness and questions the myth of progress in the neocolonial reality of the islands of the South Pacific.”

Menstruation is a very hot topic. The documentary ‘Red Cunt’ asks questions and reflects on the subject through real image and animation. This is the first part of a trilogy that German director Toti Baches devotes to female taboos. Why is the rule so discriminated against? Who benefits from this discrimination?

A married couple, writers of children’s stories, live in a town in empty Spain. Their lives are cut short when their only son, who is about to turn ten, dies. The discovery of a message from the deceased child plunges the protagonists into a game of clues that disrupts their beliefs. Write and direct the newcomer Agustín Rubio.

Swiss drama about adolescence, written and directed by Frédéric Baillif (‘Tapis Rouge’). A group of teenage girls check in with a foster home where they all have contact with social workers. The situation feeds tensions and friction, which also air intimacies. An unexpected incident sparks an avalanche of reactions.

Source: La Verdad

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