Viva · 2016
16 films · 7 reviews
Although initially threatening to take pretentiousness too far, Amama gathers power through the runtime.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Asier Altuna; Writer: Asier Altuna; Stars: Iraia Elias, Kandido Uranga, Manu Uranga, Nagore Aranburu, Ander Lipus, Amparo Badiola, Klara Badiola)
UK premiere.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Paco León; Writer: Paco León; Stars: María León, Manolo Solo, Yolanda Ramos, Carmina Barrios, Mari Paz Sayago, Estefanía Santos de los, Paco Casaus, Teresa Casanova, Joserra Leza, Paqui Montoya, Assane Dath, Julio Fraga, Alejandro León, Juanfra Romero, Marina León)
Neither the mystery of Mabel's past nor the mystery she faces in her present fully satisfy - the former is too opaque and the latter telegraphed early.
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2014; Director: Rigoberto Perezcano; Writer: Rigoberto Perezcano; Stars: Luis Alberti, Juan Carlos Medellín, José Pescina)
The film is briskly paced, infused with energy and the backdrop remains interesting.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Pablo Trapero; Writer: Julian Loyola, Esteban Student, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich, Antonia Bengoechea, Franco Masini, Gastón Cocchiarale, Stefanía Koessl, Giselle Motta)
Structurally illustrates how the indigenous people don't see time as being a chronological straight line but as multiple realities existing simultaneously.
(Country: Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Ciro Guerra; Writer: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal; Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Nicolás Cancino, Luigi Sciamanna)
(Country: Venezuela; Year: 2015; Director: Lorenzo Vigas; Writer: Guillermo Arriaga, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas; Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Jorge Luis Bosque, Greymer Acosta, Auffer Camacho, Ivan Peña, Joretsis Ibarra, Yeimar Peralta, Scarlett Jaimes, Ernesto Campos, Marcos Moreno, Armando Volcanes, Jesús Las Rosas)
Lets us consider perception and preconception.
(Country: Spain, Bolivia; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastián Alfie; Writer: Sebastián Alfie, Pedro Loeb, Albert Solé; Stars: Juan Carlos Aduviri, Sebastián Alfie, Gabor Bene, Freddy Delgado, Gigio Diaz, Pilar Groux, Mario Montero, Illia Torralba, Alicia Waza)
A sensitively handled female coming-of-age tale.
(Country: France, Guatemala; Year: 2015; Director: Jayro Bustamante; Writer: Jayro Bustamante; Stars: María Mercedes Croy, María Telón, Manuel Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy)
(Country: Spain, Cuba; Year: 2014; Director: Nicolás Muñoz; Writer: Nicolás Muñoz)
UK premiere.
(Country: Lithuania, Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Daniela Féjerman; Writer: Alejo Flah, Daniela Féjerman; Stars: Nora Navas, Francesc Garrido, Larisa Kalpokaite, Jordi Banacolocha, Sarunas Puidokas, Jurij Scuckij)
UK premiere.
(Country: Peru; Year: 2014; Director: Salvador del Solar)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 1973; Director: Juan López Moctezuma; Writer: Carlos Illescas, Juan López Moctezuma, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel Weiss; Stars: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle, David Silva, Mónica Serna, Max Kerlow, Susana Kamini, Pancho Córdova, Roberto Dumont, Henry West, Jorge Bekris, René Alís, Mario Castillón Bracho, Oscar Saro)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2014; Director: Belén Macías; Writer: Verónica Fernández, Aitor Gabilondo, Belén Macías; Stars: María León, Goya Toledo, Noa Fontanals, Eduard Fernández, Àlex Monner, Óscar Zafra, Ruth Gabriel, Blanca Apilánez, Manuel Morón, Ledicia Sola, Rachel Lascar, Sara Gamalero, Eric Bonicatto, Juan Blanco, Miko Jarry)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Álex de la Iglesia; Writer: Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarría; Stars: Raphael, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto, Blanca Suárez, Hugo Silva, Carmen Machi, Luis Callejo, Carlos Areces, Enrique Villén, Santiago Segura, Jaime Ordóñez, Tomás Pozzi, Carolina Bang, Ana Polvorosa, Luis Fernández)
UK premiere.
The act of revenge here is presented not as an outlet for anger but as one of desperation, an emotion that runs through the film.
(Country: Chile, France; Year: 2014; Director: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras; Writer: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras; Stars: Daniel Candia, Daniel Antivilo, Alejandra Yañez, Ariel Mateluna)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2013; Director: Cecilia Barriga; Writer: Cecilia Barriga)
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