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Santiago 2015 Review: LA MEMORIA DEL AGUA (The Memory Of Water) Packs A Dark Emotional Punch

Matias Bize has made films worthy of praise in his career, starting with his first feature Sabado, filmed in one shot with a camcorder for a little over an hour, about a wedding and a woman who tries to get...

LA MEMORIA DEL AGUA Trailer Puts A Relationship To The Test

The trailer for La Memoria del Agua (The Memory of Water) effectively establishes an unhappy, moody tone for its tale of a young couple whose relationship is put to the test after a tragic accident. Elena Anaya and Benjamin Vicuna star....

Pedro Almodóvar Announces Next Film, SILENCIO

Variety reported earlier today that Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has announced his next film. The director of such films as The Skin I Live In and Volver will begin production on his next film Silencio. "'Silencio' is still in the early...

Almodóvar Hits Out At Spanish Government Film Policy

Pedro Almodóvar last weekend slammed Spain's right-wing governing party, the People's Party (PP), for deliberately killing the nation's film scene as part of a political war against it.  Talking with Spanish website infoLibre, the writer and director took aim at...

VIFF 2011: THE SKIN I LIVE IN Review

Pedro Almodóvar's latest, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is not for the squeamish.  Adapted from Thierry Jonquet's novel, Tarantula, Almodóvar steps delicately back and forth between tones of medical melodrama and twisted thriller - the cumulative effect...

Full Trailer For Pedro Almodóvar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN

The full trailer for THE SKIN I LIVE IN has just been released. Directed and co-written by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Jan Cornet, it looks intriguing. Synopsis: Ever since his wife was burned in...

New Teaser For Almodovar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN Is Dark, Twisted Genius

Get ready for one minute of brilliance.A brief clip of Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito) appeared online leading up to the film's premiere in Cannes. But while that film was certainly enough to intrigue...

Cannes 2011: First Teaser For Almodovar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Welcome back, Antonio Banderas. It's been long enough now since Banderas appeared in anything that anyone particularly cared about that it is easy to forget that the Spanish star was once one of the biggest and most compelling in the...

HIERRO UK Blu-ray Review

Gabe Ibáñez's Hierro is a rather half-baked affair, a missing-child psychological thriller from Spain that strives to reach the heights of The Orphanage but falls short despite some beautiful imagery. Marine biologist Maria (Elena Anaya) lives happily with her young...

Sitges 09: HIERRO Review

How's this for a bit of pressure to lay on a new director: Gabe Ibanez's debut feature Hierro boasts the writer of King of the Hill (El Rey De La Montana), the producers of Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage, and...