The new film by Japanese animation genius Mamoru Hosoda. Fan of parallel universes that coexist with the delicacy of everyday life, Mamoru Hosoda has found in the virtuality of social networks a perfect paradise to reinterpret the classic fable by Jean Cocteau. After all, the original story is about the conflict between the soul and […]
Review of ‘They arrived at night’
Juana Acosta, Karra Elejalde and Carmelo Gómez star in the new film by Imanol Uribe. Xavier Beauvois leaned in ‘Of Gods and Men’ (2010) for the drama to narrate the massacre of a community of Cistercian monks during the Algerian Civil War. It focused on the priests, their daily lives, their doubts, fears, and resistance […]
How would Aragorn and Alatriste have gotten along? Viggo Mortensen responds
The actor reflects, at the request of FOTOGRAMAS, on this impossible connection between Middle-earth and 17th-century Spain. Aragorn and Alatriste: the most ambitious ‘crossover’ in history? In a meeting organized by FOTOGRAMAS to celebrate the legacy of the film ‘Alatriste’ on the occasion of our 75th Anniversary, the actor Viggo Mortensen has played to compare […]
Criticism of ‘Mass’, the great forgotten of the Oscars
Directed by Fran Kranz, it features fabulous performances by Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd and Reed Birney. Like the recent ‘Maixabel’, ‘Mass’ proposes an unusual approach to the process of living with the pain caused by violence and with those who caused it. Although, unlike Icíar Bollaín’s film, director and screenwriter Fran Kranz’s feature […]
Criticism of ‘For Chiara’, the other side of the mafia
Directed by Jonas Carpignano, the Italian production features Swamy Rotolo, Carmela Fumo and Claudio Rotolo. Countless stories have been told about the mafia, but what really interests Jonas Carpignano is to find out to what extent everything this universe of corruption affects the weakest links in these families, the children and young people who face […]
Criticism of ‘Morbius’, the darkest character in Marvel
Jared Leto is the Marvel vampire in Daniel Espinosa’s film with Matt Smith, Joseph Esson, Adria Arjona and Jared Harris. Two years before, 1971, Anne Rice wrote (although it wasn’t published until 1976) ‘Interview with the Vampire’, Roy Thomas (in the script) and Gil Kane (in the stylized pencils) presented in the pages of ‘The […]
Review of ‘Sonic 2: The Movie’
The fastest blue hedgehog in the world returns at full throttle in a fast-paced adventure as simple as it is worthy. Before a work like “Sonic 2: The Movie”, the critic must adopt the pose of the Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Guillermo del Toro, 2006), covering his eyes with his hands, palms out, and […]
How Viggo Mortensen signed the fencing master of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ for ‘Alatriste’
Bob Anderson, who worked on sagas like ‘Star Wars’ and James Bond, choreographed the sword fights in the film by Agustín Díaz Yanes, and its protagonist tells us the whole story. Maybe you didn’t know, but Bob Anderson has choreographed your favorite fight scenes. The British fencing master was for decades an essential figure in […]
Concha Velasco excites in the 2020 Silver Frames: “I have been an advanced in everything”
An icon of cinema, television and theater in our country, the veteran actress accompanied FOTOGRAMAS on its most special night to collect the Tribute to a Career Award. Not that to Shell Velasco Silver Frames are missing (he has eight!), but the one he received this November 15 is the most special of all. It […]
‘The squid game’: the creator of the series prepares a new movie
“It will be more violent than ‘The Squid Game’” ‘Squid Game’ creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has teased his upcoming movie based on the book ‘Killing Old People Club’. The South Korean director will make “another controversial film,” he said, inspired by the novel by the Italian intellectual and essayist Umberto Echo (via Variety). Hwang himself has […]
