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2 “El hombre de las mil caras”  (Smoke and mirrors)

by Alberto Rodriguez (2016)

6 March 2020

Flowerfield Arts Centre

starting at 18.30

Price: £10 

Tickets must be booked in advance before 4th March

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

Smoke and Mirrors (El hombre de las mil caras) is a 2016 Spanish thriller written and directed by Alberto Rodriguez.  The plot is based in a series of articules by investigative journalists Manuél Cerdán and Antonio Rubio working for the newspaper “el Mundo” about Francisco Pesoa.  The story is corroborated by Jesús Gimerá (Camoes in the film). 

Cast:

Eduard Fernández: Francisco Paesa

José Coronado: Jesús Camoes

Carlos Santos: Luis Roldán

Luis Callejo: Juan Alberto Belloch

Marta Etura: Nieves Fernández Puerto

Emilio Gutiérrez Caba: Osorno

Enric Benavent: Amérigo Casturelli

Pedro Casablanc: Abogado de Paesa

Alba Galocha: Beatriz García Paesa

Jimmy Shaw: Inversor

Santiago Molero: Inversor

Tomás del Estal: Bermejo

Israel Elejalde: González

Storyline

Francisco Paesa – ex-secret agent for the Spanish government and the man responsible for the most important operation against the Basque terrorist group ETA – is framed by his own government and forced to leave the country. When he is finally able to return to Spain, he is broke and his personal life is falling apart. It is then when he receives a visit from Luis Roldan, the powerful former Commissioner of Police who offers him one million dollars to help him safeguard twelve million dollars that were embezzled from the budget he used to control. Paesa’s acute mind will plan revenge in order to seize Roldan’s money, fooling an entire country in a brilliant and intricate operation worthy of the best illusionist. 

 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/smoke_and_mirrors_2016

 

 

Awards:

2016: 2 Goya Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. 11 Nominations

2016: San Sebastian: Best Actor (Eduard Fernández)

2016: Gaudí Awards: Best Actor (Eduard Fernández)

2016: Forqué Awards: Nominated for Best Film & Best Actor (Fernández

 

 

 

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1 “¡¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?! 

by Pedro Almodovar (1984)

Friday 8 November 2019

Flowerfield Arts Centre

starting at 18.30

Price: £10 

Tickets must be booked in advance before 16th October

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is a 1984 Spanish black comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark.

Starring Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López, Chus Lampreave and Verónica Forqué, the films follows the misadventures of an overworked housewife and her dysfunctional family. 

What Have I Done, Almodovar’s fourth film, became the first of his works to be released theatrically in the U.S. premiering to sold-out crowds as part of New Directors/New Films series, co-sponsored by the New York Film Festival and the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art.

Almodóvar has described this film as Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about peadophilia, prostitution, and a telekinetic child.

Storyline

Gloria, a downtrodden housewife, lives with her husband Antonio, mother-in-law and two sons in a small, shabby and overcrowded apartment located by the Madrid motorway.

Besides taking care of her home and family, Gloria also works as a cleaning lady to make ends meet and takes amphetamines to keep going. Her marriage to Antonio, a taxi driver, is on the rocks.

Gloria’s life has become unbearable. She has no hope, no money, no opportunities yet she is still required to pay for everything

 

Review

Technically, What Have I Done? is deliberately crude and the production values raw, a combined result of the film’s low-budget as well as Almodovar’s relative lack of experience. But the film’s shabby look is in tune with the tale’s squalid realistic context and social class of its protagonists.

What Have I Done? was critically much better received than Almodovar’s three previous films and put him on the movie map in America as a major talent to watch

More information:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_I_Done_to_Deserve_This%3F_(film)

 

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4 “Relatos salvajes”  by Damián Szifron (2015)

 

7 June 2019

Flowerfield Arts Centre

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £10  Concession price: £9

Tickets must be booked in advance before 8th April

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

The film is composed of six dark stories, involving six savage situations full of revenge (either accidental or intentional), dangerous and unexpected arguments or misunderstandings, suspicious conversations and deals, which change the lives of people who are involved in them.

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress

(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011894/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl)

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3 “Habana Blues”  by Benito Zambrano (2005)

 

12 April 2019

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £10  Concession price: £9

Tickets must be booked in advance before 8th April

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by phone: 07426 931 486

Two young musicians, Ruy and Tito (Yoel and San Martín), get a chance at an international breakthrough through a Spanish record company, but they would have to change their Cuba-themed lyrics to cater to an international audience. The themes of the film are, according to wilkipedia, art versus commerce, nationalism versus globalism, and communism versus capitalism. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habana_Blues)

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2 “El secreto de sus ojos” (Secrets in their eyes) by Juan José Campanella (2009)

11 January 2019

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £10  Concession price: £9

Tickets must be booked in advance before 8th January

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

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Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2010

Winner CEC Award	Best Actress (Mejor Actriz) Soledad Villamil
	Best Supporting Actor (Mejor Actor Secundario) Guillermo Francella
	Best Screenplay, Adapted (Mejor Guión Adaptado) Eduardo Sacheri Juan José Campanella
	Best Cinematography (Mejor Fotografía) Félix Monti
Nominee CEC Award	Best Film (Mejor Película)
	Best Actor (Mejor Actor) Ricardo Darín
	Best Director (Mejor Director) Juan José Campanella
	Best Editing (Mejor Montaje) Juan José Campanella
	Best Score (Mejor Música) Federico Jusid

 

CinEuphoria Awards 2011

Winner CinEuphoria

Best Supporting Actor – International Competition Pablo Rago

 

Clarín Entertainment Awards 2009

Winner Clarin Award	Best Actor – Film (Cine: Mejor Actor) Ricardo Darín
	Best Actress – Film (Cine: Mejor Actríz) Soledad Villamil
	Best Cinematography (Cine: Mejor Fotografía) Félix Monti
	Best Director – Film (Cine: Mejor Director) Juan José Campanella
	Best Film (Cine: Mejor Película)
	Best New Actor – Film (Cine: Mejor Revelación Masculina) José Luis Gioia
	Best Original Music – Film (Cine: Mejor Música Original) Federico Jusid
	Best Screenplay – Film (Cine: Mejor Guión) Eduardo Sacheri Juan José Campanella
	Best Supporting Actor – Film (Cine: Mejor Actor de reparto) Guillermo Francella
Nominee Clarin Award	Best Supporting Actor – Film (Cine: Mejor Actor de reparto) Pablo Rago

Goya Awards 2010

Winner Goya	Best New Actress (Mejor Actriz Revelación) Soledad Villamil
	Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Mejor Película Hispanoamericana) Juan José Campanella
Nominee Goya	Best Lead Actor (Mejor Actor Principal) Ricardo Darín
	Best Director (Mejor Director) Juan José Campanella
	Best Adapted Screenplay (Mejor Guión Adaptado) Eduardo Sacheri Juan José Campanella
	Best Cinematography (Mejor Fotografía) Félix Monti
	Best Production Design (Mejor Dirección Artística) Marcelo Pont Vergés
	Best Original Score (Mejor Música Original) Federico Jusid
	Best Film (Mejor Película) Vanessa Ragone Gerardo Herrero Haddock Films 100 Bares Tornasol Films

 

Havana Film Festival 2009

Winner Audience Award	Juan José Campanella
Winner Best Actor	Ricardo Darín
Winner Best Director	Juan José Campanella
Winner Best Music	Federico Jusid
Winner Special Jury Prize	Juan José Campanella

 

SESC Film Festival, Brazil 2011

Winner Audience Award	Best Foreign Actor (Melhor Ator Estrangeiro) Ricardo Darín
Winner Critics Award	Best Foreign Actor (Melhor Ator Estrangeiro) Ricardo Darín

 

Spanish Actors Union 2010

Nominee Award of the Spanish Actors Union	Film: Lead Performance, Female (Protagonista Cine – Categoría Femenina) Soledad Villamil
Nominee Newcomer Award	Male (Categoría Masculina) Javier Godino

 

Turia Awards 2010

Winner Audience Award

Best Foreign Film Juan José Campanella

 

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1 “Diarios de motocicleta” (The Motorcycle Diaries) by Walter Salles

12 October 2018

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £9  Concession price: £8

Tickets must be booked in advance before 10th October

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

Awards:

 

• Cannes Film Festival: François Chalais Award, Walter Salles; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Walter Salles; Technical Grand Prize, Eric Gautier; 2004.^[33]
• Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival: Audience Award Walter Salles; 2004.
• Academy Awards: Oscar; Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song; Jorge Drexler; for the song “Al otro lado del río“; 2005.
• Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, Rodrigo de la Serna; Best Music, Gustavo Santaolalla; Best Adapted Screenplay, Jose Rivera; 2005.
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts: BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language, Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff, Walter Salles;Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, Gustavo Santaolalla; 2005.
• Goya Awards: Goya; Best Adapted Screenplay, José Rivera; 2005.
• Independent Spirit Awards: Independent Spirit Award; Best Cinematography, Eric Gautier; Best Debut Performance, Rodrigo de la Serna; 2005

 

Trailers

Review: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_motorcycle_diaries/

 

 

5 “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios” (Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown) by Pedro Almodóvar

 

8 June 2018

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £9  Concession price: £8

Tickets must be booked in advance before 20th March

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

Review:

(Extract from an article by Mathilde Dumazet)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a 1988 film where Almodóvar manages to draw upon almost all of his pet themes at the same time. He puts everything into the pot and comes out with a film that’s light, refreshing and tangy.

Plot: After their break-up, Pepa (Carmen Maura) needs to talk to Ivan about something important before he goes off on a trip with another woman. For every sub-plot, there’s a woman with a tacit connection to the former couple. Pepa’s protégée, Candela (Maria Barranco), provided lodging to the Shiite terrorists who planned to hijack Ivan’s plane to Stockholm. His ex-wife, Lucia (Julieta Serrano), also tries to reach him to make him pay for the years she spent in an insane asylum. Ivan’s son (Antonio Banderas) is under the influence of his rough virgin fiancée (Rossy de Palma). Finally there’s Paulina, a feminist lawyer whose shadow looms large over the characters until we discover she, too, might be on the verge of full collapse.  All this in the kitschy-vintage 1950s-style set.

(Mathilde Dumazet) http://lwlies.com/articles/women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-pedro-almodovar/

Awards:

The film is ranked #78 in Empire magazine’s “The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema” list in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_on_the_Verge_of_a_Nervous_Breakdown

European Film Awards

• Won: Best Actress – Leading Role(Carmen Maura)

• Won: Best Young Film(Pedro Almodóvar)

• Goya Awards(Spain)
  • Won: Best Actress – Leading Role(Carmen Maura)
  • Won: Best Actress – Supporting Role(María Barranco)
  • Won: Best Editing(José Salcedo)
  • Won: Best Film
  • Won: Best Screenplay – Original(Pedro Almodóvar)

 

• Venice Film Festival(Italy)
  • Won: Golden Osella– Best Screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar)

United States

• Academy Awards
  • Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film
• Golden Globe Awards
  • Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film
• National Board of Review
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film
• New York Film Critics
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film
  • Runner-up: Best Actress(Carmen Maura)

United Kingdom

• BAFTA Awards(UK)
  • Nominated: Best Film not in the English Language

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4 “La Corte del faraón” (The Pharaoh’s Court)

23 March 2018

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £9  Concession price: £8

Tickets must be booked in advance before 20th March

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

“La Corte del Faraón” is an entertaining look at the early years of Franco’s Regime.

A group of semi-professional actors stage a charitable benefit performance of a pre-war zarzuela (a kind of Spanish operetta), “La Corte del Faraón”.  The production is too saucy for the censor, Padre Calleja, and the whole company ends up in the police station.  They soon discover that the right to justice depends on which side you supported in the civil war. 

The film will explore the alliance of powers after the civil war and the relationship between winners and losers.  We will analyse the end of the war and the beginning of a new regimen that will last for 40 more years.  

Awards:

• Silver “Concha”, San Sebastian Film Festival 1985

Credits:

• Director: José Luis García Sánchez

• Music: Vicente Lleó Balbastre

• Script: JL García Sánchez y Rafael Azcona

• Cast: Antonio Banderas (Fray José), Ana Belén (Mari Pili), Fernando Fernán Gómez (Roque), Josema Yuste (Tarcisio), Agustín González (Padre Calleja), José Luis López Vázquez (police superintendent)

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3 “La niña de tus ojos” (The Girl of your dreams)

12 January 2018

starting at 18.30

Standard price: £9  Concession price: £8

Tickets must be booked in advance before 10th January

by email: inter2lingis@gmail.com or

by phone: 07426 931 486

La niña de tus ojos is a 1998 Spanish film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines , Jorge Sanz, Rosa María Sardá and Santiago Segura. The story centers on a fictional Spanish Andalucian actress, Macarena Granada, with whom Joseph Goebbels falls in love.

The story is based on real facts: during the Spanish Civil War, most of the Spanish cinema studios supported the Republic, so Franco’s followers had to go to Germany or Italy to make fictional films.  In Germany the films were shoot at Universum Film AG in Berlin, known as UFA studios  both in Spanish and German language versions.  

This film allows us to explore the world of the “business” industry and the political relationships between Franco and Hitler in the 40s.

Awards:

• 7 Goya Awards, including Best Film and Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)

• Golden Bear – 49th Berlin International Festival (nominated)

  

Trailer

You can watch it on our Cineclub and tapas events

in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.  

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4 “La reina de España” (The Spanish Queen)

23 March 2018

Twenty years after “The girl of your dreams” Trueba reunites its troup to tell us other history based on the Spanish film making industry.

Actress Macarena Granada (Cruz) after her experiences in Berlin, (la niña de tus ojos) travelled to Hollywood, where she became a star. We are immersed in the 1950s, as the diva returns to Spain to shoot a US blockbuster entitled “The Queen of Spain”, where she will breathe life into Isabella I of Castile.  In Madrid, not only will she meet up again with her old friends and colleagues from the troupe but she will also have to contend with another dictatorial regime: that of Francisco Franco https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/filmimages.php?movie_id=853512

Awards:

 

Trailer

You can watch it on our Cineclub and tapas events

in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.

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2 “La lengua de las mariposas” (Butterfly tongues)

17 November 2017

For Moncho, 1936 is a perfect year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he explores maturity with his older brother, a saxophone player, traveling together with the band from their little town in Galicia.

But it all changes in July with the starting of the Spanish Civil war. The Spanish Republic comes under fire from Fascist rebels and people have to take sides.  Moncho’s father is a Republican as is the aging teacher, Don Gregorio. As power falls clearly to the other side, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly everybody’s live.

 

Screenwriter: Rafael Azcona, José Luis Cuerda, Manuel Rivas (Novel: Manuel Rivas)

Music:  Alejandro Amenábar

Cinematography:  Javier Salmones

 

Awards:

1999: Goya Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay. 13 nominations

 Trailers

English

Español

You can watch it on our Cineclub and tapas events

in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.

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1 “Ocho apellidos catalanes” (Spanish affair 2)

08 September 2017

 

Our first social event is coming up on 8th September.  After our first event back in April, we want to start the new term with another Spanish evening, when we’ll celebrate  with Spanish tapas and a funny film which further explores the topic of identity and regional rivalry.

 

 

 

The event will take place on 08 September at 18.30

in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.

Tickets must be booked in advance.

Available in:

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Ground Espresso Bar, Coleraine

or by contacting us at: inter2lingis@gmail.com

 

The film

“Ocho apellidos catalanes” (Spanish Affair) by Emilio Martinez-Lázaro

Genre: comedy

Plot: The sequel to “Ocho apellidos vascos” where Rafa (Dani Rovira)  from Sevilla  followed Amaia (Clara Lago) to Guipúzcoa with romantic intentions. This new film will allow us to see how their relationship develops and to explore Cataluña and the identity of its inhabitants.

 

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2 The topic for discussion: national identities and archetypes 2.

In our previous film we travelled from Sevilla in Andalucía to Guipúzcoa in the Basque Country.  This film will take us from Guetaria to Sevilla and from Sevilla to Monells in Cataluña without setting foot in Madrid

 In the previous film we explored the differences between a man from the south of Spain and a man from the shores of the Bay of Biscay on the Spanish north coast. We will meet them again, and we’ll have the opportunity to compare them to Pau, a Catalan man, and his community on Spain’s Mediterranean coast.

How do they speak? What style of clothing do they wear? Can you describe  how they behave? Interpret how they perceive each other?

Come along and find out!

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“Ocho apellidos vascos” (Spanish affair)

We want to celebrate our first anniversary as Inter2lingis by organising monthly social events where everyone interested in Spanish affairs can mingle and expand their awareness of Spanish culture and society.

These events will take the form of a Cineclub, where a film  (in Spanish with English subtitles) will help us to explore a topic of interest about Spain and its culture.

 

The first event will take place on 1st April at 18.30

in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.

Tickets available only until 28 March

 

The film

“Ocho apellidos vascos” (Spanish Affair) by Emilio Martinez-Lázaro

Genre: comedy

Plot:

Rafa (Dani Rovira)  from Sevilla  follows Amaia (Clara Lago) to Guipúzcoa with romantic intentions under the pretext of returning her mobile phone.  A  call to Amaia’s father, Koldo (Karra Elejalde) will force Rafa to become Antxon, Basque and “abretxale”

 

 

 

2 The topic for discussion: national identities and archetypes.

From Sevilla

(in Andalucía)

 

 

 

 

To Guipúzcoa (in the

Basque Country)

 

 

 

 

What are the differences between a man from the south of Spain and a man from the shores of the Bay of Biscay in the ‘Cantabrian sea’, on the Spanish northern coast? How do they speak? What way do they dress? Describing how they behave. Explain how they perceive each other.

Come along and find out!