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Archivo de la categoría 'Movies'

THE ORPHANAGE

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) is a 2007  Spanish movie. It’s a thriller interpreted by Belén Rueda and directed by the debutant  director Juan Antonio Bayona. This movie was chosen to represent Spain at the 80th Annual Academy Awards.
The Orphanage centers on a woman, Laura, who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and […]

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Goya in Bordeaux

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Goya in Bordeaux is a 1999 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. It deals with the last years of Francisco Goya’s life in Bordeaux. Goya is deaf and ill and he is in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, protesting against the oppressive rules of Ferdinand VII.  He lives with his young wife Leocadia and […]

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Tesis

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Tesis is a 1996 Spanish film directed by  Alejandro Amenábar. Angela (Ana Torrent) is a film student at the University of Madrid. She is doing a research for her thesis about audio-visual violence. Her professor (Miguel Picazo) helps her to find some material. She finds him dead while he is watching a videotape. Angela […]

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Secrets of the Heart

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Secrets of the Heart (original title Secretos del corazón) is a 1997 Spanish film written and directed by Montxo Armendáriz. The story is set in small village of Spain during the Sixties. Javi (Andoni Erburu) is a nine years old boy and his brother tells him that sometimes you can hear the voice of the […]

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Volver

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Volver (2006) is a Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodovar. It deals with the interaction between three generations of women in a Spanish family. The Spanish verb volver means to return to a place. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz), her daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) and Raimunda’s sister  Sole (Lola Dueñas) travel from Madrid to a […]

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Butterfly

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Butterfly (original title: La lengua de las mariposas) is a Spanish film of 1999. It describes the friendship between a boy (Manuel Lozano) and his teacher, Don Gregorio (Fernando Fernán Gómez).
Moncho is a shy gentle boy who is frightened by the school experience, because of its strict discipline and hard-line teachers. There he meets […]

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Belle Époque (1992)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Belle Époque (1992) is a Spanish film which was awarded with an Oscar as the Best Foreign Language film and 9 Goya Prize.
Set in 1931, this is a romantic story that takes place  some  months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Fernando, a Spanish soldier, deserts from the army becuase of his political ideas. […]

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Una pelicula : Scaramouche

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Una película de 1953, se desarrolla en la ciudad de Burgos (capital de provincia de la región de Castilla y León). La Mascara de Scaramouche realizada por Antonio Isasi- Isasmendi es del estilo “de capa y espada”.
Nos cuenta la historia de Andre Moreau que quiere la venganza por la muerte de su amigo Marcus Brutus […]

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En los jardínes de Murcia

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Si quieres ver hermosos paisajes de Murcia es una pelicula que ver. En los jardínes de Murcia es una pelicula francesa que se estrenó en 1935 y que fue rodada en Murcia. Es también una pelicula que nos cuenta un hecho importante de esta ciudad: los canales de irrigación que fueron muy importantes para que […]

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El Hombre de Arena

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

We find ourselves in the late 1960s. The Psychiatric Hospital of Extremadura houses the sick, the drunk and tramps, but also people who fall under the now extinct Decree of Vagabonds and Criminals, under which homosexuals also fell. The institute suffers from the methods and indifference of its director, Burgos (Alberto Jimenéz), who has more […]

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