Madrid (EFE).- Fifteen premieres for Friday, May 12, which coincide with the spring edition of the Film Festival, on this occasion, with a few international proposals among which “Marlowe”, with Liam Neeson, the sequel “BookClub. Ahora Italia” or the interpretive deployment of Tilda Swinton in “The Eternal Daughter”.
Liam Neeson lends his elegance to detective “Marlowe”
Neil Jordan, winner of an Oscar, recovers Liam Neeson (the protagonist of his famous biography of the activist “Michael Collins”) to turn him, at seventy, into the most famous detective in American literature and film noir, Philippe Marlowe, the one who entrusts, of course, the resolution of a crime in the underworld of Los Angeles.
Set in the late 1930s, Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), daughter of a well-known movie star (Jessica Lange). A swarm of lies that the private detective must unravel.
“Love again”: finding the love of your life by mistake
The actor and director Jim Strouse proposes in the romantic comedy “Love again” a curious love story -which he tells in his cast with Celine Dion, in the role of “cupid”- in which an error in the addressee of a series of text messages end up connecting two strangers who are soul mates.
The reading friends of “50 Shades of Grey” arrive in Italy
Andy García, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Don Johnson, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen make up the choral and “revival” cast of the comedy “Book Club – Now Italy”, a sequel to “Book Club”, which recovers the adventures of these four tall friends whose lives change after reading “50 Shades of Grey” and who now travel to Italy to seek adventure.
“The Bounty Hunter”: Gunmen in Texas 1892
Walter Hill brings the western genre back to theaters, supported by a stellar cast where Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Brosnahan shine, with a story that takes place in Texas in 1892, when a deserter soldier kidnaps a beautiful woman in Mexico. woman of good family; but her husband hires a bounty hunter to find her.
“Dialogue with life”, and trying to understand it
The French Christophe Honoré portrays the bewilderment with which a 17-year-old boy (Paul Kircher) begins to take steps in life to grow in a world marked by the weight of an important death, while leaning on an emancipated brother who welcomes him for a few days in Paris (Vincent Lacoste) and a mother (Juliette Binoche) who only tries to show him the way.
Tilda Swinton defends a ghost story: “The eternal daughter”
Renowned British filmmaker Joanna Hogg proposes a ghost story, “The Eternal Daughter,” starring the chameleon-like actress Tilda Swinton, in which a middle-aged woman and her elderly mother must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their home. old family home, a mansion that has been converted into an almost empty hotel full of mystery.
“The stillness in the storm”, Basque generational story and the world
The Basque short filmmaker Alberto Gastesi makes his feature film debut with “The stillness in the storm”, a generational story full of music and poetry in which two couples -Loreto Mauleón, Iñigo Gastesi, Aitor Beltrán and Vera Milán- cross paths while visiting a apartment for sale in San Sebastian.
“The match of the century”: first soccer tournament in the postwar period
Based on a true story, it narrates the events that occurred during the first post-war international soccer championship in which Dynamo Moscow made a historic tour of Great Britain. It was November 1945 and the Russians are flying to London to face a lot more problems than playing unbeaten British teams.
“Blanquita”, sexual scandal in Chile with a special witness
After the acclaimed “Carne de perro” (2012) and “Jesús” (2016), the young Chilean filmmaker Fernando Guzzoni presents “Blanquita” in Spain, the story of an 18-year-old resident of a foster home, a key witness in a scandal involving children, politicians and wealthy men participating in sex parties.
“De Humani Corpori Fabrica”, a documentary about meat and cinema
Five centuries ago, the anatomist Andrés Vesalio opened the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” opens the human body to the cinema, revealing that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape. The French Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel tell it in a documentary.
“La última lidia”, a documentary about bullfighting that breaks prejudices
Directed by Tomás Ocaña, “La última lidia” is a documentary designed to explain bullfighting to the general public through a polyhedral story that breaks prejudices and explores human contradictions where the defenders and detractors of the national holiday are given a voice to make it the viewer who makes his own judgment.
Cartoons from France and Denmark for Spanish children
The French David Alaux, Eric Tosti and Jean-François Tosti recreate the classic story of the Greek god of the seas in “Patti and the Fury of Poseidon”, helped by a curious little mouse and the cat who adopted her on a journey that is no other. than that of Jason and the Argonauts. And from Denmark, Amalie Næsby Fick proposes “Little Alan’s alien incident”, science fiction about walking around the house with lost aliens and an endearing grandfather.
Terror with “Jeepers Creepers: the rebirth” and the Spanish “Slasher”
Fourth installment of the “Jeepers Creepers” saga in which Laine begins to have premonitions associated with the urban myth of The Creeper and becomes convinced that something supernatural has been summoned, while the Spanish Alberto Armas Díaz debuts with “Slasher” a drama of A genre that begins when Julio (Sergio Sheriff) inherits a mask that his father used to kill: the question is whether he should continue the family tradition.
In addition, a film premiere: “Venus”, Víctor Conde’s debut
In his film debut, Víctor Conde adapts his homonymous play into a film, “Venus”, which pays homage to the spirit and temporal structures of the Nouvelle Vague.