'Alcarras' review: Spain's Oscar entry shines light on family of farmers
Director Carla Simon's drama 'Alcarras' -- Spain's submission for the international feature Oscar -- follows a proud farming family facing displacement.
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Director Carla Simon's drama 'Alcarras' -- Spain's submission for the international feature Oscar -- follows a proud farming family facing displacement.
Carla Simón’s spellbinding second feature focuses, in exquisite detail, on the rhythms of extended family life in rural Spain.
film profile]. The shoot had been scheduled to start exactly one year ago, but the health crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic delayed filming by months. For the shoot, it was vital that the peaches which are so important in the storyline would be hanging from the trees, ready to be picked during the summer. Just like in Dream of Light, the iconic documentary by Víctor Erice, nature thus pulls the strings of this film, which is finally becoming a reality on the originally scheduled dates, but with a delay of 12 months. (The article continues below - Commercial information)
Schoolgirls strikes gold with four Goya Awards Pilar Palomero (on screen) accepts the Goya for Best New Director It was a hybrid event (a format all-too familiar from last year’s festival season) that set the scene for a hotly anticipated edition of the Goya Awards on Saturday 6 March, adjudicated by the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.While the presenters held court over an empty Malaga auditorium, nominees dialled in from home via video link. As we all expected in light of its triumph at the Forqué (see our report here) and Forez Awards (here), the night belonged to
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