Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited, 2013)
Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Javier Cámara, Cecilia Roth, Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre
BY FIONA NOBLE
Pedro Almodóvar’s Los amantes pasajeros/I’m So Excited is, on the surface, a comedic, drug-fuelled romp of a film, that for Paul Julian Smith ‘marks a much heralded return to the transgressive and corrosive comedies of Almodóvar’s early period’. Like the director’s early films, produced in the aftermath of the Movida madrileña, Read More…
Balada Triste de Trompeta (The Last Circus, 2010)
Written and directed by Alex de la Iglesia.
Starring: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tafallé
BY ANDRÉS ROMERO – JODAR
During the first half of the twentieth century, Europe was engaged in an atrocious fight against fascism. Fortunately, the Second World War put an end to some of those terror regimes, but sadly enough, in the Iberian Peninsula the wrong guys won the war. For more than forty years, both Portugal under Salazar and Spain under Franco Read More…
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