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The same dream
Spanish films brought to Moscow
Today, the Days of Spanish Cinema about Love are opening at the Central House of Writers Cinema - as if for those who did not have enough impressions at the just ended “Faces of Love”. And equally for those who want to make sure that modern Spanish cinema is not limited to the Almodóvar-Amenábar-Medem trinity. The program includes feature films and documentaries, mostly unknown to our film buffs and Hispanophiles. The only exception, perhaps, is “Divine Light” by Miguel Hermoso, which the year before received the “Golden George” and the Audience Award – a romantic phantasmagoria about a village shepherdess who, at the height of the civil war, found a man who had lost his memory in an open field and many years later discovered that his ward is none other than Frederico Garcia Lorca. The film, despite the awards, had a limited release here, and therefore should not be missed. Also on the program is the cruel melodrama “Iris” by Rosa Verhes, the story of a young girl whose fate was broken by war and male meanness; the almost criminal story “Tangier” by Juan Madrid, which, contrary to the title, but in accordance with the director’s surname, tells about the inhabitants of the Spanish capital; Spanish-Argentine "Tango for Two" by Jaime Chavarri - a musical drama filled with passionate Latin American rhythms; "The Knot" by Lewis Guell, which seems to be a detective story, but touches on completely metaphysical problems; "Ten Days Without Love" by Miguel Albaladejo is one of the most recognized Spanish films of recent years, winner of the main prize at the Verona Romantic Film Festival, the main prize-winner at the Los Angeles Spanish Language Film Festival and a Cesar for the best actor - Sergi Lopez.In addition, non-fiction, but worthy of close attention, films “Gala” by Sylvia Munt will be shown - about Galina Dyakonova, who went down in the history of world culture as the muse of Eluard and the wife of Salvador Dali; "Eight Love Stories" by Luis Lopez-Tapia, dedicated to the life and work of Picasso; and “The Happy Life of Monsieur de Betancourt,” a film by Valery Ignatiev about the Spanish engineer and architect Augustin Betancourt, who worked in Russia in the first half of the 19th century.
The most important event of the Days of Spanish Cinema is “The School of Seduction” by Javier Balaguer, a new comedy melodrama with the participation of Victoria Abril, an actress who is well known in our country from Almodóvar’s films (after all, we can’t live without him) and is loved no less than in Spain. The film will be released on April 21, but seeing it almost a month before the official premiere is a special kind of pleasure.