This Friday the Spanish cinemas are getting the Releases of the week with international ‘locomotive’, ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice‘, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton from his acclaimed 1988 comedy ‘Beetlechus’, and a handful of other films, including, ‘The 47’, by Marcel Barrena, and the French ‘The silence‘, by Joachim Lafosse.
Tim Burton and his sequel after 36 years: ‘Beetlechus Beetlechus’
Opening film of the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘ is the sequel to the award-winning fantasy-horror comedy ‘Beetlechus’, a huge hit in the 1980s, in which Tim Burton keeps Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder in their original roles, and adds talents such as Jenna Ortega (‘Wednesday’), Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux and Willem Dafoe.
Following an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return to Winter River; Lydia, still haunted by Beetlejuice, discovers that her teenage daughter Astrid has found a model of the town in the attic, and the portal to the Afterlife accidentally opens.
‘El 47′: A moving account of the workers’ struggle in Barcelona
Marcel Barrena returns to work with Eduardo Fernandezthe protagonist of his award-winning film ‘Mediterráneo’ (2021), once again in the role of a real character, this time, Manolo Vital, a bus driver who hijacked his vehicle to show the authorities that his suburban neighborhood deserved public transportation.
In “The 47”, Barrena takes the viewer to Barcelona in the 1970s when the immigrants who arrived in the Catalan capital, mainly from Andalusia and Extremadura, built with their humble hands neighborhoods that barely had any connection to the metropolis, despite the fact that their neighbors were the workers who built modern Barcelona.
Joachim Lafosse and the hypocrisy in the face of abuse in ‘A Silence’
Belgian Joachim Lafosse directs ‘A silence’, a disturbing film that addresses the hypocrisy and double standards of the European bourgeoisie in a drama about pedophilia within the family.
Astrid, the wife of a renowned lawyer, has been silent for 25 years. The balance of her family suddenly collapses when her children begin to seek justice.
Fear and deaths in the Barcelona Metro: ‘Rocafort Station’
Directed by the Madrid native Luis Prietoauthor of titles such as ‘Shattered’ or ‘Kidnap’, this Horror film revives a mystery that has shaken the Rocafort Metro station in Barcelona for yearswhere legend says that people die under strange circumstances.
Laura (Natalia Azahara) starts working at the station and decides to investigate what is happening in Rocafort, and when she asks for help from Román (Javier Gutiérrez), a seasoned ex-policeman who harbors his own demons related to the case, she realizes that whatever is happening at the station is still happening today, and goes after her.
‘My Friend the Penguin’, a touching true story
David Schurmann directs this Brazilian-American family adventure comedy, starring Adrana Barraza and Jean Renobased on the true story of fisherman João Perei de Souza and the penguin Din dim, which went viral in 2016.
On a remote island beach off the coast of Brazil, Joao (Reno), a Brazilian fisherman, rescues a tiny Magellanic penguin covered in oil and on the brink of death.
A man fights for his daughter in the dystopia ‘New Earth’
The Venezuelan filmmaker Mario Pagano directs this fantastic thriller that follows León (Iván Sánchez), a man who, along with his family, takes refuge in the mountains after a virus wipes out civilization.
A religious organization called The Legion, which performs mass kidnappings of teenage girls After the pandemic, his daughter is kidnapped and Leon will do everything possible to survive on New Earth and find her.
‘Queens’, an almost autobiographical film by Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke
Set in Peru in the 1990s, ‘Reinas’, directed by Klaudia Reynicketells the story of two teenage sisters who, along with their mother, are about to leave the country in search of a better life. They are fleeing a very turbulent political situationwith the military controlling the streets, but for this they need their father’s authorization.
During this process, an unexpected and unique relationship is born between the girls and their father, which will make them all question what is the best life for which they should fight.
‘Light of ’86’, lesbian love in Finland
Directed by Finnish filmmaker Inari Niemi‘Luz del 86’ is a lesbian drama and romance, based on the novel of the same name by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinenwho collaborates on the script with Juuli Niemi.
Set in the spring of 1986, the film follows Mimi, a young girl who arrives in a small town in western Finland after the Chernobyl accident to give meaning to the life of 15-year-old Mariia (Rebekka Baer). Twenty years later, Mariia is left caring for her ailing mother, and memories of that summer come flooding back.
Lucija Stojevic films the life of ‘Pepi Fandango’, Peter Pérez
Lucija Stojevic (director of ‘La Chana’, winner of the Feroz documentary in 2018) writes and directs this ‘road movie’ with an elderly man as protagonist, Peter Perez, an 84-year-old man known as Pepi, who He embarks with his best friend on a journey from his home in Vienna to a village in Andalusia where he will face his conflictive relationship with the most authentic flamenco.
His childhood in the Rivesaltes concentration camp in France marked his relationship with that music: today it transports him to the darkest moments of his childhood, but also alleviates his suffering.
