Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE) This week’s movie release schedule.
“The Boogeyman: The Bogeyman”, horror by Stephen King
Rob Savage (“Host”) directs this adaptation of Stephen King’s story about a high school student and her little sister, who are recovering from the recent death of their mother when a patient of their father’s therapist shows up at their house harassed. by a terrifying supernatural entity that feeds on the suffering of its victims.
Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina and Vivien Lyra Blair lead the cast.
A new animated Spiderman in the multiverse
Miles Morales, the new spider-man who jumped into animated cinema for the first time in “Spiderman: a new universe” (2018), returns in this sequel that delves into the multiverse, where he will meet other versions of the superhero.
This Sony Pictures saga, starring a teenager with an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother who discovers his powers after being bitten by a spider, is completely alien to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The actor and comedian Leo Harlem calls for “respect and coexistence” in his new film, “Como Dios manda”, a comedy in which he plays an old-fashioned civil servant who must learn to overcome his misogynistic, homophobic prejudices and racists.
Directed by newcomer Paz Jiménez, it narrates the adventure of Andrés Cuadrado, a civil servant whose notion of the world will be altered when he is expelled from the Ministry of Finance, where he led a rigid and outdated life, and transferred to the Ministry of Equality.
Laia Costa, mother surpassed in “Els Encantats”
Laia Costa, winner of the Goya for Best Actress last February for “Cinco Lobitos” puts herself in the shoes of a young woman, mother of a four-year-old girl, who is facing a separation from her partner in this new film by Elena Trapé .
Trapé won the Biznaga de Oro at the Malaga Festival for his previous film, “Las distancias” and in this past edition he won the award for best script with this intimate story about a young mother overwhelmed by her situation.
“Bears do not exist”, a dart against the Iranian regime
Shot in hiding by the Iranian Jafar Panahi and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, “The Eyes Do Not Exist” tells two parallel love stories in which couples are frustrated by hidden obstacles, the force of superstition and the mechanics of power.
Panahi was arrested shortly after the end of filming, in July of last year, after denouncing the arrest of two other filmmakers in Iran and last February he was released on bail, one day after declaring a hunger strike to denounce his imprisonment. .
“The Cyclades, Girlfriends Getaway”, with Krintin Scott Thomas
Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this comedy by Marc Fitoussi that narrates the trip to the Greek islands of two friends who seek to escape their lives and rediscover a past that no longer exists.
This reflection on friendship and the changes in perspective that comes with maturity was a box office success in France, where it seduced more than 150,000 spectators at its premiere.
“Rebel”, a war drama about Islamic radicalization
Belgian-Moroccan Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, directors of “Bad Boys for Life,” starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and which grossed more than $426 million at the worldwide box office, get behind the camera again with this war drama that addresses the situation of Muslims recruited by radicals who force them to fight with ISIS.
“Rebel” tells the story of Kamal, a young Belgian of Moroccan origin who decides to travel to Syria as a volunteer to help war victims, where he is forced to join an armed group, and his brother Nassim, who dreams of joining him and becomes easy prey for jihad recruiters.
Gerard Depardieu, a chef in “The taste of simple things”
Between comedy and culinary drama, this film directed by Slony Sow tells the story of two chefs, one more renowned and the other lesser known, who develop a deep relationship of friendship and respect through cooking.
Starring Gérard Depardieu and Kyōzō Nagatsuka, the story begins when, after a near-death experience, France’s best chef is considered the ultimate flavor he discovered as a young man when he was defeated by a bowl of ramen from a japanese chef.
“Secaderos”, a psychedelic rural drama in the Granada plain
The vision of the tobacco dryers that populated the region of La Vega de Granada when Rocío Mesa was a girl and an “obsession” as an artist with the rural world are at the origin of “Secaderos”, the first feature film by this filmmaker from Granada. settled in the United States for more than a decade.
The film parallels the story of a city girl who finds the dream paradise of magic and freedom on rural vacations and a teenager who feels it is like a cage and yearns for the diversity of the city.
“The Padilla case”, the lesson of a Cuban poet
Winner of the Platinum Award for best documentary, this film directed by the Cuban based in Madrid Pavel Giroud brings to light for the first time the classified archive with the fierce self-criticism that the Castro regime forced the poet Heberto Padilla to do in 1971.
In that harrowing session, Padilla accused some of those present, including his wife, of being counterrevolutionaries. The film features the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Fuentes and Fidel Castro, among others.
“I eat your heart”, a mafia drama
Free adaptation of the book by Carlo Bonini and Giuliano Foschini about the mafia that operates in the northern Italian region of Apulia, directed by Pippo Mezzapesa and starring the singer Elodie Ciavarrella.
It is a black and white film that, unlike the book, parks the police plot to focus on the dispute between two criminal families.