The Christmas lights have been turned on in Spanish movie theaters thanks to titles with box office ambitions. The creators of ‘Forrest Gump’, Tom Hanks among them will attempt a new global hit with ‘Here’like Peter Jackson, behind a new animated story taken from the universe of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Below is the list of releases for this Thursday (Friday is a holiday), which is very varied.
‘Here’
Robert Zemeckis (director), Tom Hanks (actor), Robin Wright (actress) and Eric Roth (screenwriter) created ‘Forrest Gump’ in 1994, it was a worldwide success and won six Oscars. They return together with this film with a similar recipe. Love, family, death, loss… Emotions unfold through the stories of the ‘Here’ house and the families that lived there, and viewers will see them from a single point of view. It is a risky formal bet in which a modern realistic digital technique plays an essential role that ages and rejuvenates the actors in a surprising way.
‘The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim’
This animated prequel to the trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, here executive producer, as directed by the Japanese Kenji Kamayama, goes back 183 years to tell the story of the House of Helm Hammerhand and the king of Rohan, besieged by the Dunlendings, whose heir , Wulf, longs to avenge his father’s death. A epic combat brings together the film, specifically that of the Honburg fort, which later became the legendary Helm’s Deep.
‘Emilia Perez’
Jacques Audiard, one of the great French filmmakers of the moment, directs this musical drama with a stellar cast in which Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gómez and Karla Sofía Gascón shine. trans woman born in Madrid 52 years agoin the role of the drug trafficker who transitions to Emilia Pérez. Groundbreaking musical numbers, and above all a story in which love and violence intermingle in modern-day Mexico, led the film to win the Palme d’Or for Best Female Performance at the last Cannes festival.
‘To the other neighborhood’
Quim Gutiérrez and Sara Sálamo lead the cast of this story about the adventures of a businessman who, to correct a fraud against the Treasury, must set up his company in a peripheral and degraded neighborhood and give work to his neighbors. He comedy tone is breaking down social prejudices as the film, directed by Mar Olid, progresses.
‘Who’s who’
Comedy in which the members of a family not very well off experience a change of great proportions after making a wish, the smallest in the saga. Martín Cuervo directs this movie made to make you laughbased on a 2021 French title and starring Elena Irureta (‘Patria’), Kira Miró (‘Machos Alfa’) and Salva Reina (‘Ellipsis’).
‘The bail’
A seemingly perfect marriage collapses because of a stranger. This is the starting point of the thriller directed by Gonzalo Perdomo-Tafur and starring Juana Acosta (‘Perfect Strangers’), Julián Román (‘Golpe de Estadio’) and Israel Elejalde (‘Mothers Parallels’).
‘SuperKlaus’
Due to a severe blow to the head, Santa Claus wakes up convinced he is a superheroand this is how he will behave while chaos and the evil Fafnir take over the North Pole and Santa’s workshop. Until a group of friends decide to avoid it. Animation produced in Spain and Canada.
‘Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-‘
Recap of the first season of an already cult anime series, and with surprise: a preview of the second season. ‘Solo Leveling’ is the story of hunter Sung Jinwoo in an apocalyptic world.
‘Cambodia, 1978’
Cambodian Rithy Panh directs this drama about the genocide in his country during the 70s that passed through the last Cannes festival. It stars Irène Jacob, who worked on two of Polish Krysztof Kieslowsky’s masterpieces (‘Red’ and ‘The Double Life of Veronica’).
‘Black butterflies’
Documentary about devastating effect that climate change causes in the lives of three women living in three different parts of the planet. Directed by the canary David Baute.
‘The flower of Buriti’
Three periods in the history of a indigenous village in the heart of the Brazilian jungle make up the plot of this film directed by two talents from the Buenos Aires Cinema University: João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora.
