''Malena Is a Name from a Tango'' ( es, Malena es un nombre de tango, links=no) is a 1996 drama film directed by Gerardo Herrero from a screenplay by Senel Paz based on the novel by Almudena Grandes. It stars Ariadna Gil.

Plot

The plot concerns about the romantic and sexual endeavours of Malena, a victimised and rebellious woman contrasting to her twin sister Reina (who always was the model girl in the family), and then about the mother-son relationship of Malena with her son. Malena was gifted however a talisman by her grandfather back when she was 10.

Cast

Production

An adaptation of the novel by Almudena Grandes, the screenplay was penned by Senel Paz. It is a Spanish-French-German co-production by Alta Films, Tornasol Films, Blue Dahlia Production, La Sept Cinema, and Road Movies Produktionen. Shooting locations included the San Julián estate (, Lorca),

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, Águilas, and Madrid.

Release

Distributed by Alta Films, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 12 April 1996.

Reception

Jonathan Holland of '' Variety'' deemed the film to be a "well-intentioned, provocatively moralizing women's pic that ends up as second-rate melodrama". Luis Martínez of ''

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'' deemed that, efforts from a "magnetic" Ariadna Gil notwithstanding, the films "ends up as an uneven and quite chatty journey into the interiors of this disease called life".

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{{authority control Films based on Spanish novels Films shot in the Region of Murcia 1996 drama films 1990s Spanish films 1990s French films 1990s German films 1990s Spanish-language films Films shot in Madrid Tornasol Films films Films directed by Gerardo Herrero