Tag: María Zamora
Vital Vigo: Newcomers Llúcia Garcia & Mitch Topline Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
Last September, we had the first details on what Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winning Alcarràs (read review) filmmaker Carla Simón was cooking up...
Salve Maria | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Good Mother: Coll Examines Motherhood as Psychological Trauma
Seeing as director Mar Coll punctuates her third feature Salve Maria with chapters utilizing quotes from...
Billionaire Boys Club: Andrey Zvyagintsev Tackles Power & Corruption with “Jupiter”
He had a couple of projects in the works (English language project What Happens and a “psychological mood” of Russia’s society) and then had...
Toque in Trilogy: Carla Simon Dances with Producer María Zamora for “Romería”
Golden Bear winner Carla Simon has reteamed with her Alcarràs (read review) producer Elástica Films' Maria Zamora for what is coined as neo-realist flamenco...
Rebel Rodríguez: Paula Ortiz Traces Footsteps of Spanish Pioneer “Hildegart”
The other day Variety provided an update on Amazon’s Prime Video film items in the works for the Spanish market and one project that...
Alcarràs | Review
Peach Be With You: Simon Harvests Bitter Reality in Solid, Steady Family Drama
Returning to the rural experiences which defined her 2017 debut Summer of...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #77. Clara Roquet’s Libertad
Libertad
Another title we thought would appear in 2020 was the debut of screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014), Jaime Rosales’ Petra...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet’s Libertad
We advanced the idea same time last year mentioning that this directorial debut checks off a lot of boxes in terms of the type...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #85. Libertad – Clara Roquet
Libertad
Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial...
The Days to Come | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review
Becoming a We: Marques-Marcet Keeps it Real with a Micro-Drama of Love & Pregnancy
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way...