Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE) of the week, along with the comedy “Oso Vicioso” by Elizabeth Banls and the latest work by Agustí Villaronga, “Loli Tormenta”.
“Dungeons and dragons”, a role-playing game made into a movie
Heroic fantasy role-playing game first published in 1974, in the 80s it gave rise to a television series -called in Spain “Dungeons and Dragons” and now comes the film, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and with Chris Pine as protagonist.
A charming thief leads an epic heist to recover a lost relic, but things go horribly wrong when they run into the wrong people. Humor, action and adventure, all in one.
“The empire of light”, the new Sam Mendes
The British Sam Mendes, director of titles such as “American Beauty” (1989) and “1917” (2019) brings together Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth and Toby Jones in this story about human connection and the magic of cinema.
Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, “Empire of Light” revolves around a film director with mental health problems and a cinema worker stifled by provincial life.
“Vicious Bear”, a wild comedy directed by Elizabeth Banks
After “Charlie’s Angels” (2019), the also actress Elizabeth Banks continues her career as a director with this wild comedy based on a true event, a plane crash that in 1985 caused a drug dealer to lose the cocaine he was carrying and that would end up being eaten by a black bear.
Starring Keri Russell -known for the series “The Americans”-, it has Ray Liotta in the cast, who died last year, in one of his latest film works.
“Loli Tormenta”, Villaronga’s latest film
It is also posthumous for Agustí Villaronga, director of titles such as “Pa negre” and “Uncertain glory”, who died last year, the premiere of his latest film, “Loli Tormenta”, starring the brand new Goya winner for “Cinco lobitos” Susi Sanchez.
With a friendly and comedic tone, it tells the story of Lola, a modern and chaotic grandmother who lives with her grandchildren after the death of her daughter. Everyone’s life changes when Lola suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and the children try to hide it so they don’t get separated from her.
Milena Smit and Jaime Lorente in a disturbing religious thriller
Two of the youngest actors of the moment, Milena Smit and Jaime Lorente, star in Rubin Stein’s debut feature, “Tin & Tina”, a religious thriller with hints of horror based on the eponymous short that was nominated for a Golden Méliès and won more of thirty international prizes.
When Lola (Smit) loses the babies she was expecting, she also loses her faith in God. Hoping to get her back, she goes with her husband Adolfo (Lorente) to a nunnery where they meet Tin and Tina, two angelic seven-year-old brothers to whom Lola feels strangely attracted and they decide to adopt them.
Maya Hansen-Love proposes “A beautiful morning”
Maya Hansen-Love, an already established voice in French auteur cinema, contrasts the death of a loved one and the intense desire to live in her eighth feature film, “A beautiful morning”, starring Lea Seydoux.
The actress, who has worked with directors such as Tarantino, Woody Allen and Ridley Scott and has been a ‘Bond girl’, puts herself here in the shoes of a mother who divides her time between raising her daughter alone and visiting her sick father, when one day he meets an old friend and they start a passionate relationship.
“The Punishment”, a Chilean drama about motherhood and guilt
Chilean Matías Bize, Silver Biznaga for Best Director at the Malaga Festival, explores the psychology of a repentant mother, played by Antonia Zegers, in this story that takes place in real time, in 80 minutes.
Ana and Mateo have left their son alone for a few minutes as punishment for having misbehaved, but when they go for him they can’t find him and a desperate search begins in which Ana will face her most hidden feelings.
A French comedy about prejudice and the rural world
Based on a true case, this comedy tells the story of David, a young French farmer who, in order to save his farm from ruin, decides to set up a cabaret in that same place. His relatives, his mother and especially his grandfather, are quite skeptical.
Directed by Jean Pierre Améris (“The Story of Marie Heurtin”, “Shy Anonymous”), “A cabaret in the countryside” has been a success in France, where it has raised close to one and a half million euros.
A little pig named “Oink”
“Oinkm, Oink” is an animated film, based on the book by Tosca Menten “De wraak van Knor”, which was nominated in that category for the European Film Awards and was presented at the last Berlinale, where it received very good reviews. .
The plot revolves around a 9-year-old girl who receives a pig as a gift from her grandfather and convinces her parents to keep it on the condition that they train it. The little pig changes everyone’s lives, until things start to get complicated.
“Paula”, an intimate approach to anorexia
The second feature film by Argentine director Florencia Wehbe, after “Mañana tal quiz” (2020), is an intimate approach to the anorexia suffered by a 14-year-old teenager played by Luisa Castro. The film won the special jury prize at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival.
The transgressor Joao Pedro Rodrigues returns with “Fuego fatuo”
The latest feature film by Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues, presented at the last Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, is a fantastic musical comedy that takes place in the future, where the king of Portugal, on his deathbed, recalls his past.
“My way out”, stories from the trans community
In 2016, the producer, screenwriter and now also a director Izaskun Arandia met Vicky Lee, owner of The WayOut, a reference club for the London trans community and now tells the story of its almost three decades of existence through testimonials and images of archive.
“Human flowers of fresh”, a meditative experience
Film directed by the German Helena Wittmann, is an exploration of life at sea from a perspective close to the pictorial, in which images and sounds invite the viewer to a state of meditative trance.
The Tetris Success Story on Apple TV+
Tarib Egerton stars as video game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers, who picked up the rights to the Tetris video game for Nintendo in 1989 in this Cold War thriller, which promises “treacherous villains, unlikely heroes and an exciting race.” against the clock” and which premieres directly on Apple TV+.
