Pedro Almodóvar named best director for Julieta; Sonia Braga wins best actress for Aquarius.
The Distinguished Citizen converted three of its four nominations at the Platino Awards in Madrid on Saturday honouring the best of Ibero-American cinema.
The feature won best film, best screenplay and best actor for Óscar Martínez, crowning almost a year of prizes and box office success for this acute comedy directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat.
The film premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival, where Óscar Martínez won the prize for best actor, playing a Nobel prize-winning writer who returns to his hometown in Argentina after years away and discovers the dangers of revisiting the past.
Winners of the fourth edition of the Platinos also included prizes for Julieta and A Monster Calls.
Pedro Almodóvar was named best director of for Julieta. In tune with political statements on the night referring to the Venezuelan crisis and the need to build...
The Distinguished Citizen converted three of its four nominations at the Platino Awards in Madrid on Saturday honouring the best of Ibero-American cinema.
The feature won best film, best screenplay and best actor for Óscar Martínez, crowning almost a year of prizes and box office success for this acute comedy directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat.
The film premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival, where Óscar Martínez won the prize for best actor, playing a Nobel prize-winning writer who returns to his hometown in Argentina after years away and discovers the dangers of revisiting the past.
Winners of the fourth edition of the Platinos also included prizes for Julieta and A Monster Calls.
Pedro Almodóvar was named best director of for Julieta. In tune with political statements on the night referring to the Venezuelan crisis and the need to build...
- 7/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Title: Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) Director: Damián Szifrón Starring: Ricardo Darín, Óscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylbergberg, Darío Grandinetti. ‘Wild Tales’ (Relatos Salvajes) is a beautifully cynical Argentine black comedy drama, that has been selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. The movie can boast the blessing of producers Pedro and Agustín Almldóvar, who teamed up with co-producers Hugo Sigman, Matías Mosteirín, Esther García, Claudio Belocopitt, Gerardo Rozín. The cast (Ricardo Darín, Óscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylbergberg, Darío Grandinetti), is absolutely brilliant in giving life to the wildest and darkest sides of [ Read More ]
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- 12/5/2014
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up buzzed about competition contender Wild Tales for North America, Australia and New Zealand.
The film, sold by Film Factory, receives its premiere in Cannes today.
Wild Tales is coproduced by Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo in Spain and Hugo Sigman’s Kramer & Sigman in Argentina and directed by Damián Szifron.
The film is made up of six separate stories. It’s billed as “a darkly comic story of tragedy, love, deception, the past, and the violence lurking beneath the surface of the everyday. The characters of Wild Tales are pushed toward the abyss and into the undeniable pleasure of losing control, crossing the thin line that divides civilization from brutality.”
The cast is led by Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes), Óscar Martínez (Empty Nest), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Red Lights), Rita Cortese (Brother and Sister), Julieta Zylberberg (A Boyfriend for My Wife), Erica Rivas (Lock Charmer) and Darío Grandinetti ([link...
The film, sold by Film Factory, receives its premiere in Cannes today.
Wild Tales is coproduced by Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo in Spain and Hugo Sigman’s Kramer & Sigman in Argentina and directed by Damián Szifron.
The film is made up of six separate stories. It’s billed as “a darkly comic story of tragedy, love, deception, the past, and the violence lurking beneath the surface of the everyday. The characters of Wild Tales are pushed toward the abyss and into the undeniable pleasure of losing control, crossing the thin line that divides civilization from brutality.”
The cast is led by Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes), Óscar Martínez (Empty Nest), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Red Lights), Rita Cortese (Brother and Sister), Julieta Zylberberg (A Boyfriend for My Wife), Erica Rivas (Lock Charmer) and Darío Grandinetti ([link...
- 5/16/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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