TORONTO 2024: The Party’s Over (2024) (Se acabó la fiesta)
★★★☆☆
Toronto: The Party’s Over directed by Elena Manrique is a black comedy that shows the underbelly of immigration.
Spain
Sheffield Documentary Festival: The Boy and the Suit of Lights (2024) (El niño y el traje de luces)
★★★★☆
The Boy and the Suit of Lights is a raw documentary by Inma De Reyes that uncovers an insider’s view of some of the tensions between traditional and modern Spain.
Cannes Film Festival 2024: Day 7: Monday, 20 May: The Other Way Around (2024) (Volveréis)
★★★★☆
The Other Way Around directed by Jonás Trueba is a glossy romcom in reverse with a deeper philosophy.
The Human Voice (2020)
★★★★☆
The Human Voice is a gripping half-hour monologue of madness and melancholy that brings director Pedro Almodóvar and other-worldly actress Tilda Swinton together in an artistic marriage made in heaven.
Camino Skies (2019) – Q&A on 13 May and ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
Cathartic documentary following six strangers walking the pilgrim way to Santiago de Compostela.
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) (2019) – ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
Fire Will Come is a prophetic, arresting and mesmerising love letter to nature by Oliver Laxe.
End of the Century (2019)
★★★★☆
Writer/director Lucio Castro’s intimate drama End of the Century sees two men meet and form a passionate connection before realising that they had met similarly twenty years earlier.
BFI LFF 2019: I Die of Sadness Crying for You (2019)
★★★★☆
I Die of Sadness Crying For You is for all those interested in how music, and the sound of a voice, can take us on journeys no other art form can.
Pain and Glory (2019)
★★★★☆
In personal and revealing Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar looks back on his life, loves and passion for films.
Cannes Film Festival: Pain and Glory (2019)
★★★★☆
In Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar looks back on his life, loves and passion for films.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
10,000 km (2014)
★★★★☆
10,000 km stars Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer as the heartbreakingly real couple in Carlos Marques-Marcet’s compelling story of love stretched to the limit, now on DVD/VOD.
French Film Festival UK: The Death of Louis XIV (La Mort de Louis XIV) (2016)
★★★★☆
Albert Serra’s compelling film about the slow death of the Sun King features an extraordinary performance by the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud.
The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
★★★★☆
Albert Serra’s compelling film about the slow death of the Sun King features an extraordinary performance by the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud.