Jaime Chávarri
1943 (81 год)
Writing Heads: Hablan los guionistas
Alfonso S. Suárez
José Luis Acosta, Ángela Armero
They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they emerge from the shadows of a poorly lit room and tell their secrets, their tricks, their influences; they tell their own story, that of those who face the blank page, the absolute nothingness; that of those who are the true authors, those who create and destroy entire universes. They are the screenwriters.
Writing Heads
Bicycles are for the Summer
Jaime Chávarri
Amparo Soler Leal, Victoria Abril
In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.
Bicycles Are for the Summer
Cuento Chino
Rodrigo Bazzano
Angie Savall, Galiya Utepova
Pili is a middle-age woman. She owns a tabacco shop in a working class neighberhood of Madrid, and she is a gambler. Enraged by the prize of a slot machine, she will chase Ying and Li-Sung throughout the neighborhood. How far will she be willing to go?
Cuento Chino
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Aute retrato
Gaizka Urresti
Miki Aute, Jesús Munarriz
A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and will have in the future.
Aute retrato
National Heritage
Luis García Berlanga
Agustín González, Luis Escobar
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
National Heritage
Tangos Are for Two
Jaime Chávarri
Darío Grandinetti, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Tangos Are for Two
Las cosas del querer
Jaime Chávarri
Ángela Molina, Ángel de Andrés López
In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, the young man wants revenge.
The Things of Love
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Chema de la Peña
Héctor Alterio, Miguel Arribas
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. His first films were produced between friends, her back to the industry. Rolled with minimal budget and with the sole intention of having fun ... And big surprise were critical and box office successes. And also true generational manifestos.
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
Iván Zulueta
José Luis Borau, Antonio Drove
A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like at all, and that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. An unusual film by the odd Zulueta in which, after the success of Spanish singer Massiel in Eurovision contest, this kind of contests are parodied with an insane story shot without a script and with the performance of several top music bands of that time.
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
A un dios desconocido
Jaime Chávarri
Héctor Alterio, María Rosa Salgado
José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively.
To an Unknown God
Camarón
Jaime Chávarri
Óscar Jaenada, Verónica Sánchez
The life of Camarón de la Isla, the legendary Spanish flamenco cantaor, from his beginning until his death; the relationships he struck up with his wife, la Chispa, and guitarists Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero…
Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend
