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Fele Martínez
Fele Martínez (born Rafael Martínez; 22 February 1975) is a Goya Award-winning Spanish actor. Early years Martínez was born in Alicante, Spain. A product of the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, he began to act and direct theater at an early age. His first acting attempts were with the Sexpeare Teatro theater company. Career His chance at stardom came at the hand of Alejandro Amenábar, who offered him a role in his opera prima '' Tesis''. It was for this work that Fele received the Goya Award for Best New Actor in 1996. Among his films are the notable ''Abre Los Ojos'' (Amenábar, 1997), '' Los amantes del círculo polar'' ( Julio Médem, 1998), ''El arte de morir'' (Álvaro Fernández Armero, 1999), ''Capitanes de Abril'' (María de Medeiros, 1999), ''Tuno negro'' (Pedro L. Barbero y Vicente J. Martín, 2000), and '' La Mala Educación'' (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004). He has also participated in several independent film projects including the short films ''Pasaia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Goya Awards
The 32nd Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 3 February 2018, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2017. Joaquín Reyes (actor), Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla hosted the awards ceremony. Nominations were announced on 13 December 2017 by David Verdaguer and Bárbara Lennie. ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' received the most nominations with thirteen, followed by ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' with twelve nominations. ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' won Best Film, as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, but ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' won the most awards, with ten awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Major awards Other award nominees Honorary Goya *Marisa Paredes Films by number of nominations and awards Controversy The fashion designer David Delfín, who died on 3 June 2017, and the actress Amparo Pacheco, who died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; (often known simply as Almodóvar) born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. His films are marked by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narratives. Desire, passion, family, and identity are among Almodóvar's most prevalent subjects in his films. Acclaimed as one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodóvar and his films have gained worldwide interest and developed a cult following. Almodóvar's career came to during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed after the end of Francoist Spain. His early films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, who has been responsible for producing all of his films since ''Law of Desire'' (1987). His breakthrough film was ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night My Mother Killed My Father
''The Night My Mother Killed My Father'' ( es, La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre, links=no) is a 2016 Spanish comedy film directed by . It stars Belén Rueda, Diego Peretti, María Pujalte, Fele Martínez, Patricia Montero, and Eduard Fernández. Cast Production The film is a La Noche Movie AIE, Sangam Films, Post Eng Producciones production and it had the participation of TVE, Movistar+, and Crea SGR and backing from ICAA and Cultura Arts. It was shot in Valencia. Release The film was presented in the official selection slate of the 19th Málaga Film Festival on 23 April 2016. Distributed by Festival Films, it was released theatrically in Spain on 29 April 2016. Critical reception Jonathan Holland of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' underscored the film to be "a slick, satisfying Spanish screwballer". Accolades , - , align = "center" , 2017 , , 4th Feroz Awards , , colspan = "2" , Best Comedy Film , , , , align = "center" , See also * List of Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Estrella (film)
''La Estrella'' is a 2013 Spanish comedy-tinged drama film directed by Alberto Aranda (in his feature debut) based on the novel by . It stars Ingrid Rubio as the title character alongside Carmen Machi, Marc Clotet, and Fele Martínez. Plot Set in Santa Coloma de Gramenet and featuring the backdrop of gender violence, the plot follows the vicissitudes of Estrella, a good-willed and joyful woman (with her boyfriend Salva and her best friend Trini around). She takes over the reins of her life in a search for happiness. Cast Production Written by Alberto Aranda and Belén Carmona, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Belén Carmona. It is a A Contraluz Films production, and it had the participation of Televisió de Catalunya, TVC and Televisión Española, TVE, and support from and ICAA (Spain), ICAA. It was primarily shot in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (specifically in Les Oliveres neighborhood). Release The film was presented in the 'Malaga Premiere' section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14, Fabian Road
''14, Fabian Road'' is a 2008 Spanish film directed by Jaime de Armiñán which stars Julieta Cardinali and Ana Torrent. Plot The fiction follows Camila, an Argentine best-selling fiction author with a reported writer's block who is gently kidnapped by a purported fan (Vega) upon making a trip to Spain. Camila is thereby taken to an isolated hostal in Extremadura managed by Palmira so she can write a new novel. Rather than a fan, Vega turns out to be seeking revenge, whilst Camila, rather than a novelist, is a marketing façade to sell novels. Cast Production The screenplay was co-written by Jaime de Armiñán and his son Eduardo. The film is a Lula Cine production and it had the participation of Telemadrid. It was shot in Extremadura, including Mérida. Release ''14, Fabian Road'' premiered at the 11th Málaga Film Festival's official selection on 11 April 2008. It was theatrically released in Spain on 21 November 2008. Reception Jonathan Holland of ''Variety'' as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tánger
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Ṭanja-Aẓila Prefecture of Morocco. Many civilisations and cultures have influenced the history of Tangier, starting from before the 10th centuryBCE. Between the period of being a strategic Berber town and then a Phoenician trading centre to Morocco's independence era around the 1950s, Tangier was a nexus for many cultures. In 1923, it was considered as having international status by foreign colonial powers and became a destination for many European and American diplomats, spies, bohemians, writers and businessmen. The city is undergoing rapid development and modernisation. Projects include tourism projects along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mala Educación
''Bad Education'' ( es, link=no, La mala educación, also meaning 'bad manners') is a 2004 Spanish Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar and Francisco Boira, the film focuses on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylised murder mystery. Along with metafiction, sexual abuse by Catholic priests, transsexuality and Recreational drug use, drug use are also important themes and devices in the plot. The film received an Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, NC-17 rating in the United States for a depiction of homosexual sex. The film was released on 19 March 2004 in Spain and 10 September 2004 in Mexico. It was also screened at many international film festivals such as Cannes, New York, Moscow and Toronto before its US release on 19 November 2004. The film received critical acclaim, and was seen as a return to Almodovar' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hable Con Ella
''Talk to Her'' ( es, Hable con ella) is a 2002 Spanish drama written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship as they care for two women who are both in comas. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film while Almodóvar won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It is generally regarded as one of the best films of the 2000s. Plot The story unfolds in flashbacks, giving details of two separate relationships that become intertwined. At a performance of ''Café Müller'', a dance-theatre piece by Pina Bausch, Benigno Martín and Marco Zuluaga are seated next to each other. They are strangers, but Benigno notices the tears on Marco's face at one point during the performance. Marco is a journalist and tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkness (2002 Film)
''Darkness'' is a 2002 supernatural horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró and starring Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini and Fele Martínez. The film was produced by Julio Fernández and Brian Yuzna. The film's plot follows an American family who move into a house in the Spanish countryside, where six children disappeared during an occult ritual forty years before; the teenage daughter and young son of the family are subjected to increasing disturbances in the house. The film premiered in Spain on October 3, 2002, and was released in theaters across the country eight days later on October 11. It was sold to Miramax Films for American distribution in 2003, but ended up being put on hiatus for over a year; it was eventually released in United States theaters in an edited, PG-13-rated cut on December 25, 2004. Plot Forty years after an unfinished occult ritual resulted in the disappearance of six young children, the Rua family has moved from the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Serenade
''Black Serenade'' ( es, Tuno negro, links=no) is a 2001 Spanish slasher film directed and written by Pedro L. Barbero and Vicente J. Martín about a serial killer who, dressed with a tuno cape and a mask, kills underperforming university students. Plot A serial killer infiltrates in the tuna of the University of Salamanca and uses the confusion of the night parties to kill lousy students deemed unworthy of receiving a university education. Two cops are tasked with discovering the real identity of the killer. Cast Production The film was produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez for Iberoamericana Films, Lolafilms and Telecinco, and it had the participation of Vía Digital. Filming began on 14 August 2000. Shooting locations included Salamanca, Alcalá de Henares and Madrid. Release The film was theatrically released on 20 July 2001. Critical reception Critical reviews of the movie were quite bad. Agusto M. Torres wrote in ''El País'' that there are "irregularities in the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Captains
''April Captains'' ( pt, Capitães de Abril) is a 2000 film telling the story of the '' Carnation Revolution'', the military coup that overthrew the corporatist dictatorship (known as the '' Estado Novo'') in Portugal on 25 April 1974. Although dramatised, the plot is closely based on the events of the revolution and many of the key characters are real - such as Captain Salgueiro Maia and Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. This European co-production was directed by Maria de Medeiros. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film opens on the evening of 24 April 1974, as a young conscript soldier (Daniel) kisses farewell to his girlfriend (Rosa) before boarding a train from Lisbon back to his Army base at Santarém. Both are fearful that he will be sent to fight in the Portuguese Colonial War. Late and depressed, Rosa then travels by tram to Antónia's flat to babysit for her daughter Amelia. On arriving back (late) at his base, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Tears (1998 Film)
''Black Tears'' ( es, Lágrimas negras, links=no) is a 1998 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Ricardo Franco and Fernando Bauluz. Ricardo Franco's swan song, filming was unfinished upon Franco's death and then completed under assistant director Fernando Bauluz. It stars Ariadna Gil and Fele Martínez alongside Elena Anaya, Ana Risueño and Elvira Mínguez. Plot The plot tracks Andrés, a photographer engaged to his long-time girlfriend Alicia who falls romantically for a mentally-ill woman, Isabel (under the guise of 'Ana'), some time after their first encounter when the assault on Andrés by Isabel together with another woman, Cinta—as well as Andrés' ensuing kidnapping, humiliation and rape—took place. Cast Production The screenplay was penned by Ricardo Franco and Ángeles González Sinde, based on an original story by Ricardo Franco and Dionisio Pérez Galindo. The plot has a backdrop of autobiographical elements reportedly inspired by Ricardo Franco's relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
