Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE).- Holy Week brings film releases to this Wednesday, headed by “Super Mario Bros: the movie”, one of the most famous and long-running video game franchises, along with “Air”, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon narrating the alliance between Michael Jordan and the sports brand Nike, and “The Exorcist of the Pope”, a horror film starring Russell Crowe.
“Super Mario Bros.: the movie”, from Nintendo to the cinema
After the unsuccessful 1993 film, the Nintendo hero returns to animated films by Illumination Entertainment (“The Minions”), with a story in which the brothers Mario and Luigi travel through an underground world in search of the missing woman. Princess peach.
“Air”, Michael Jordan and Nike give rise to a fashion icon
Ben Affleck occupies the director’s chair for the fifth time and is also one of the protagonists of “Air”, a film that narrates the association between Michael Jordan, at the beginning of his career as a basketball player, and the sports brand Nike to create the iconic “Air Jordan” sneakers.
He is joined in the cast by Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Damian Young, who plays Jordan.
Russell Crowe faces the devil in “The Pope’s Exorcist”
The dose of terror comes from the hand of Russell Crowe, who, under the direction of Julius Avery, puts himself in the shoes of Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist who over several decades performed more than one hundred thousand exorcisms and reached to become the most important exorcist of Christianity.
“From little hood to wolf” goes from the tables to the screen
Based on the play of the same name, written and starring Marta González de Vega, who makes her debut as a film actress, this comedy tells the story of Marta’s overcoming through different romances and has the participation of key figures of Spanish comedy such as Berto Romero, David Guapo, José Mota, Martita de Graná, Antonio Resines or Santiago Segura.
“Blue jean”, a drama about making homosexuality invisible
In 1988 England, Jean, a lesbian physical education teacher, is forced to live a double life when the government of Margaret Thatcher passes a new law that stigmatizes the LGTBIQ+ community in this Georgia Oakley Award-winning debut. Award in Venice and Seville and four British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), including Best Actress in a Leading Role (Rosy McEwen).
“Empieza el baile” unites Madrid and Buenos Aires to the rhythm of tango
Winner of the audience award at the Malaga Festival, the new film by Marina Seresesky presents the story of the reunion of Carlos (Darío Grandinetti) and Margarita (Mercedes Morán), who together were the most famous pair of tango dancers in Argentina and who 30 years later they begin a journey through the Andes in which they reminisce about old times.
French actor Louis Garrel returns behind the camera in “The Innocent”, a sentimental crime film that premiered at Cannes and was a huge hit with French audiences and revolves around Abel (played by Garrel himself), a young widower. who discovers that his mother (Anouk Grinberg) is about to marry a former robber who has just been released from prison.