While we expect an avalanche of powerful premieres as always in December, November leaves us with some well-known productions on the platforms, such as British Steve McQueen’s latest film ‘Blitz’ and the adaptation of ‘Pedro Páramo’. , several documentaries about known and unknown people, black comedies and horror stories, or a film about how the exquisite cuisine of the Basque restaurant Mugaritz was designed.
‘Shadows of power’, Michael Winterbottom (Movistar Plus+, Tuesday 5)
It is the final work of the once highly respected director of ‘Road to Guantanamo’ and ’24 hour party people’, who today has a more unstable but still consistent career. The heroes of the film are the daughter of one of the founders of the socialist Zionist movement and the British police chief Soshama Borochov.
‘Pedro Páramo’, Rodrigo Prieto (Netflix, Wednesday 6)
Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, a regular of Scorsese and one of the popular films of recent times such as ‘Barbie’, is starting productions adapted from Juan Rulfo’s novel, with a script written by Spanish Mateo Gil. Pedro Páramo is almost an abstraction; A character sought by his son within the borders of a violent town, who changes the course of the story without taking part in it.
‘The family on the couch’ by Niclas Larsson (Movie, Friday the 8th)
Featuring a top-notch cast for the US, Danish and Swedish co-production starring Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans, F. Murray Abraham and rescued Lara Flynn Boyle (Laura Palmer’s best friend from ‘Twin Peaks’) Much of the dark and distant humor of Scandinavian cinema. It tells about the relationships between three brothers and their mother.
‘Lubo’ by Giorgio Diritti (Movie, Friday the 8th)
German actor Franz Rogowski, seen in Terrence Malick’s ‘The Secret Life’, Ira Sachs’ ‘Passages’ and Andrea Arnold’s last film ‘Bird’, plays a street musician participating in this Italian production in 1939 Switzerland. to protect the country against a possible German invasion. His wife is dying and he doesn’t know where his three children are.
‘Anime king Miyazaki’, Leo Favier (Movistar Plus+, Saturday 16)
Master Hayao Miyazaki, who received awards at all international festivals, is a name that gives importance to Japanese animation cinema with titles such as ‘Porco rosso’, ‘Princess Mononoke’ or ‘Spirited Away’. This French-made documentary includes interviews with his son Goro and his closest colleagues.
‘Mugaritz. ‘Without bread and sweets’, Paco Plaza (Movistar Plus+, Thursday 21)
Paco Plaza, one of the architects of the Spanish horror cinema of recent years, here examines in depth the processes that led to the Mugaritz restaurant becoming one of the best restaurants in the world. Their dishes and general concepts differ every year. The camera follows the many challenges undertaken by the Mugaritz team.
‘Blitz’ by Steve McQueen (Apple TV+, Friday the 22nd)
It evokes the “blitzkrieg”, the successive bombings by which the German army imposed its own special period of terror on the British people during the Second World War. Steve McQueen’s latest films ‘Shame’, ’13 Years a Slave’ and ‘Small Axe’ starring Saorsie Ronan are streaming directly on the internet
‘The Disappeared’ by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Movie, Friday the 22nd)
A new breath of horror and thriller from two directors who dynamited the genre in France fifteen years ago with the terrifying ‘In the Interior’. Virginie Ledoyen and Sandrine Bonnaire are the heroes of this story set in a mountain town terrorized by the circulating mythology about a monstrous monster.
‘Valentines’, Jordan Weiss (Max, Thursday 28)
Thanksgiving, college, post-adolescence, and a breakup. It’s a relentless, if not always flawless, romantic comedy formula about two students who decide to break up with their partners for Thanksgiving. The decision throws the characters into literal emotional chaos.
‘On the Edge’, Eduardo Casanova (Movie, Friday the 29th)
In this recently shot documentary, Eduardo Casanova, director of ‘Pieles’ and ‘La Piedad’ and actor of ‘Aida’, discusses the story of a young man who set himself on fire in a bonzo style on a street in Madrid and investigates the reasons for this. They led him to do this. Casanova shot the film almost secretly over five years.
Source: Informacion
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