Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE) “The hotel of troubles”, with Pepe Viyuela and Jose Mota.
Keanu Reeves continues to seek justice in “John Wick 4”
The action and suspense saga that has revitalized the career of Keanu Reaves reaches its fourth installment, under the direction of Chad Stahelski and with a cast that also includes Laurence Fishburne, Bill Skarsgard -giving life to a new villain called The Marquis- or the Spanish Natalia Tena.
Wick’s head has an ever-higher price as he continues to battle the High Table and hunt down the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to Berlin.
Adam Driver among dinosaurs in “65”
Science fiction thriller directed by the creators of “A Quiet Place”, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and starring Adam Driver, one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood after the end of the Star Wars saga.
After suffering an accident on an unknown planet, the pilot Mills (Driver) discovers that he is stranded on Earth, but 65 million years ago. Along with the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), he must fight his way through dangerous prehistoric creatures.
Pepe Viyuela and José Mota, a comic duo in “El hotel de los líos”
Two comedy aces, Pepe Viyuela and José Mota, recover their characters from “García y García” -a box office success that exceeded one million euros in revenue in 2021-, in “El hotel de los líos”, this time helped by a group of gifted children who stay at that hotel on the occasion of a contest.
Directed by Ana Murugarren, responsible for the first part, “García y García” also features in the cast Paz Padilla, Diego Arroba “El Cejas” -who also sings- and Antonio Resines, among others.
Emmanuel Mouret narrates the “Chronicle of an ephemeral love”
After “The things we say, the things we do”, the French director Emmanuel Mouret returns to the field of romantic comedy with this story, starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Macaigne, about a couple who bet on living a relationship only led by the pleasure and without commitments.
She is single and the mother of three children, he is also a father and is married, and the film focuses on the meetings between them, their complicity and their conversations.
“Matria”, a very close story
The filmmaker from Vigo Álvaro Gago started from a very close story, that of the woman who took care of his grandfather in his last years of life, to write the short “Matria” from which this first feature film that has gone through festivals was born. from Berlin and Malaga.
In Malaga, María Vázquez, also from Galicia, won the award for best actress for her character as Ramona, a woman who lives in a town in Galicia, immersed in a work and personal context full of tension, sacrifices and uncertainty.
“A walk with Madeleine”, an emotional French drama
French actress and singer Line Renaud and one of France’s most popular comedians, Dany Boon, reunite on the big screen after the blockbuster hits “Welcome to the North” and “My Family from the North” in this dramatic comedy directed by Christian Carion.
Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to take her to a retirement home but before she asks Charles, a disillusioned driver, to take her through the places that marked her life. Through the streets of Paris, she reveals her extraordinary past as the two forge a friendship that will change their lives.
“Return to Seoul”, the search for roots
In order to rediscover her origins, 25-year-old Freddie, raised in France, returns to South Korea, where she was born before being adopted, and begins to search for her biological parents in a country she barely knows.
The new film by Davy Chou, a filmmaker of Cambodian-French origin who became known with “Diamond Island” (2016), premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival, within the Un Certain Regard section and also screened at festivals in Toronto, New York or Seville.
“Rimini” and “Sparta”, a diptych by Ulrich Seidl
True to his way of portraying human nature in all its sleaze and crudeness, the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl unites his last two films with a sharp thread: his two protagonists are brothers.
In “Rimini”, which premiered at the Berlin Festival and won an award for best film in Gijón, Richie Bravo is a once charismatic singer come down, who lives in the Italian city that gives the film its title and whose life takes a turn when, at her mother dies, she must return to her native Austria.
His brother Ewald, the protagonist of “Sparta” -premiered with controversy in San Sebastián-, emigrated years ago to Romania. Now, after breaking up with his girlfriend, he moves to the interior of the country, where he rehabilitates a nursery school while fighting his darkest impulses.
“Partidos”, the voices of the Argentine exile in Spain
Director Silvia di Florio brings together many voices of Argentine exiles who arrived in Spain fleeing the military dictatorship (1976-1983) and their children already born in Spain to talk about an identity divided by time and by life between two countries.
Among their testimonies, the documentary “Partidos” features familiar faces such as the actors Héctor Alterio and his daughter Malena.
A documentary about the connections between Galdós and Buñuel
Luis Roca directs this film that moves between classic documentary, non-fiction, mockumentary and animated cinema, to find the convergence between the Canarian writer Benito Pérez Galdós and the Aragonese filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
“Benito Pérez Buñuel” brings together the voices of specialists, admirers and names close to the two great universal creators, to investigate the phrase pronounced by Buñuel to his friend Max Aub in 1969: “Galdós’s is the only influence that I would recognize on me ”.
Kiko Veneno, “One day Lobo López”
Kiko Veneno recalls the process of creating his most emblematic album, ‘Échate un cantecito’, which is 30 years old, in this documentary by Alejandro G. Salgado.
“Un día Lobo López” delves into the vital circumstances and the artistic and historical context that made possible the creation of an album that marked the way in flamenco pop and that changed the luck of its author.
“The servant”, a story about Vicenta María López y Vicuña
Pablo Moreno, from Salamanca, specialized in religious cinema, directs this film based on the life of Vicenta María López y Vicuña, founder of the Religious Congregation of María Inmaculada.
Vicenta María was a woman from high society in the mid-19th century who decided to dedicate herself to caring for those women who were forced to leave their homes to find new opportunities in domestic service in the Spanish capitals.