''La soledad'' (English: ''Solitary Fragments'') is a 2007 Spanish drama film written and directed by
Jaime Rosales
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Club career
Rosales started his professional career at Marathón and played for several clubs in the Honduran league. ...
. It was Rosales's second film: he had previously made, ''
The Hours of the Day
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''.'' Solitary Fragments'' (La soledad), divided in five chapters, follows a
dual narrative
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, 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 apartment with Carlos and Ines, a nice young couple. The three get along well then, sharing meals, doubts and leisure. Antonia, Ines's mother, has a small neighborhood supermarket. She leads a fairly quiet life with her boyfriend Manolo. Antonia has two more daughters: Nieves and Helena, the eldest. However, little by little, Antonias's pleasant life begins to crumble. First, a doctors detects that Nieves has cancer. Later, the already tense relationship between her daughters gets more complicated when Helena asks her mother borrowed money to buy an apartment on the beach.
Adela has no major difficulties in adapting to urban life, even though the father of her baby does not help her economically. While traveling by bus, she is one of the victims of a terrorist attack, leaving her life in tatters. From that moment she should find the strength to return to a normal life.
Cast
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María Bazán - Helena
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Petra Martínez
Petra Martínez Pérez (born 24 June 1944) is a Spanish actress who has a long career on stage, film and television.
She was in the cast of the 1967 stage play ''Twelfth Night'', by William Shakespeare. In 1968, she married her eventual longtim ...
- Antonia
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Sonia Almarcha
Sonia Almarcha (born 1972) is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Born in Pinoso, province of Alicante, in 1972.
She studied at and graduated from the Valencia's Dramatic Art School (1986–1989). She further trained her acting chops at the William ...
- Adela
* Miriam Correa - Inés
* Nuria Mencía - Nieves
* Jesús Cracio - Manolo
* - Carlos
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José Luis Torrijo
José Luis Torrijo (born 9 February 1967) is a Spanish theatre, television and film actor. His most acclaimed film performance is his role in ''Solitary Fragments'' for which he won the Goya Award for Best New Actor.
Biography
José Luis Torrijo ...
- Pedro
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Juan Margallo
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- Padre Adela
Awards and nominations
:''To see the complete list of awards and nominations, see thi
link''
Goya Awards
*Best Director (Jaime Rosales, winner)
*Best Film (winner)
*Best New Actor (José Luis Torrijo, winner)
Spanish Actors Union
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*Best Actress (Petra Martínez, nominee)
References
Interview with Jaime Rosales tras recibir los Premios Goya ''
20 minutos'', February 5, 2008
Son pocos, son valientes''
El País
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It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...
'', February 10, 2008
External links
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{{Goya Award for Best Film
2007 films
2007 drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films set in Madrid
Best Film Goya Award winners
Spanish drama films
2000s Spanish films