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María Bazán
''La soledad'' (English: ''Solitary Fragments'') is a 2007 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime Rosales. It was Rosales's second film: he had previously made, ''The Hours of the Day''.'' Solitary Fragments'' (La soledad), divided in five chapters, follows a dual narrative, the characters' lives unfold as a series of everyday concerns over health, work, shelter, relationships and money. Made with a small budget and with actors from the theater scene, the film was nominated for 3 Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won all three awards, including the Best Film and Director award. Voted by Spanish film critics as Best Film of the year for that reason, it was given the Fotogramas de Plata Award. Plot Adela, a young woman recently separated from her husband and with one-year-old baby, is tired of her life in a small hometown Leon. She leaves behind the mountains and the country life to move to Madrid. She gets a job as a hostess and moves into an apartme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Rosales (director)
Jaime Rosales (born 1970 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia). He did several successful short films before his long film debut with ''Las horas del día'' that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, ''La soledad''. His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for ''La soledad'', film that received the Goya for Best Film too. His 2012 film '' Dream and Silence'' was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and also appeared at the 56th London Film Festival. His 2014 film ''Beautiful Youth'' was selected to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |