In recent years, the Toronto film festival and market has had a special relationship with Spanish cinema. In the 2023 edition, Pedro Almodovar It was the subject of a moment of silence and important feature films and animations such as Víctor Erice’s ‘Cerrar los ojos’, shot in Spain last year, and JA Bayona’s ‘The Snow Society’ were shown. ‘Robot Dreams’ by Pablo Berger and ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal.
The Canadian competition, which begins this Thursday and runs through September 15, will see Almodóvar return for the first time with his latest English-speaking film. ‘The room next door’ recently arrived from Venice and is also set to be shown at the San Sebastián festival. Two Spanish productions will compete in the Platform section (with a $10,000 prize for the winning film): ‘They will dust’ and ‘Forever Daniela’, latest movies Carles Marqués-Marcet and Nacho Vigalondorespectively.
Another section, called the Centerpiece, will form the framework of the presentation. ‘Los Tortuga’ is Belén Funes’ second feature film. And the first film he directed in the Discovery section Elena Manrique, ‘The end of the party’. Manrique has produced some of the most famous hits in Spanish cinema so far this century: ‘The Orphanage’, ‘Cell 211’ and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’.
Starring Beatriz Arjona, Sonia Barba and Edith Martínez Val, the behind-the-scenes debut focuses on three women living in the same Andalusian mansion: a woman of mysterious privilege, a housemaid and an African immigrant. As for Funes’ second film, its director says,A thief’s daughter Although she continues to talk about the complexity of family relationships through the mother/daughter relationship, or the impossibility of overcoming these difficulties, she takes a certain distance from her excellent debut. loss of father/husband, as well as issues like the crisis in the countryside or the evictions in the big cities. ‘Los Tortuga’ has a great new actor, young Elvira Laraand with Antonia Zegersone of the most important Chilean actresses on the current scene (“The Club”, “A Fantastic Woman”, “The Dogs”, “The Count”).
Marqués-Marcet differs considerably in direction with a very bold approach in ‘Polvo serán’, a family melodrama in which he plays the leading role. Ángela Molina and the other ‘star’ of contemporary Chilean cinema, Alfredo Castro. The sick woman wants to end her life with assistance and tells her sons and daughters about it. The two characters come from the theatre, so the film also examines very theatrical behaviour. The director’s biggest risk is in the musical transgressions that somehow desacralise the drama: the film is punctuated by a series of musical choreographies, some in a modern style, others addressing the audience. The geometric charm of Busby Berkeley.
Vigalondo’s latest film work is based on the 2006 fantasy film. ‘Colossal’ starring Anna Hathaway. There’s been a lot more done on television, with a new installment of the classic ‘Stories to Not Sleep’ and the creation of ‘Superstar’, a yet-to-be-aired series produced by Los Javis and featuring the voices of Ingrid García Jonsson and Carlos Areces. You can see her return to cinema in Toronto. ‘Forever Daniela’ A film based on some personal experiences and constructed as a genre film. A dystopian romance about a man devastated by the death of his partner.you are given the clinical opportunity to control your dreams and relive it permanently. Where does music come from? Hydrogenity, Last year they released the album ‘Sky full of extraterrestrial ships’ which was actually the soundtrack to the episode ‘The alarm’ from ‘Stories to keep you awake’ directed by Vigalondo.
Source: Informacion
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