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Moussa (Djédjé Apali) is a young man from Burkina Faso. He lives in the village where he was born, his parents, his family and his wife, Fatima. Although he prefers to call "Bamako", because it is there, in the capital of Mali, where he met, before getting married and having a baby, Mamadou. The field gives just enough to eat, but this precarious balance is broken lately due to the long drought. Driven by the responsibility to help the family, and after seeking opinion to the elders of his village, Moussa decided to emigrate to Europe.
Assistant Director
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Assistant Director
성서적인 상징과 암시로 가득 찬 아름답고 몽환적인 판타지. 자신이 천사라고 믿고 있는 젊은 청년 앙헬은 스페인의 작은 와인 생산지에서 발생한 해충을 구제하기 위해 파견된다. 이 벌레는 포도에 균을 만들어 포도주에서 흙맛이 나게 만드는 것이다. 마을에 도착한 앙헬은 수줍고 소극적인 유부녀 앙헬라를 사랑하게 되는데, 그와 동시에 대범하고 극단적인 19살의 빨강머리 소녀 마리의 구애 또한 받게 된다. 앙헬과 이 두 여자들의 관계는 조용하던 마을에 파문을 일으키고, 앙헬은 자신의 존재에 대해 고민하기 시작한다. 루이스 부뉴엘의 을 연상시키는 모호하면서도 촉각적인 분위기 속에서 인간의 욕망과 욕구, 좌절과 비애, 삶의 의미에 대해 성찰하고 있는 작품. 전작 과 에서 보여진 메뎀의 영화적 재능이 최고로 빛을 발한 작품으로 90년대 유럽영화 중 가장 뛰어난 작품이라는 평을 받았다.
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Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, and the daughter Leire (Alvarez) has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home. A chance meeting between Leire and Ismael, who now works in a bar, leads Ismael to think that she still ight be able to recognise him, and turn him in to the police. With the help of his girlfriend Maite (Lio), he kidnaps Leire and chains her to the bed in his house. He is unable to kill her, however, and instead asks the mental home for a ransom for her return. Whilst a prisoner, though, Leire and Ismael grow closer and closer through his attempts to make her laugh and their mutual love for chocolate.
Assistant Director
Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, and the daughter Leire (Alvarez) has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home. A chance meeting between Leire and Ismael, who now works in a bar, leads Ismael to think that she still ight be able to recognise him, and turn him in to the police. With the help of his girlfriend Maite (Lio), he kidnaps Leire and chains her to the bed in his house. He is unable to kill her, however, and instead asks the mental home for a ransom for her return. Whilst a prisoner, though, Leire and Ismael grow closer and closer through his attempts to make her laugh and their mutual love for chocolate.
Assistant Director
The story unfolds in Bilbao. Rocío (Emma Suárez), is in love with Mario (Antonio Banderas), a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, Domingo (Francisco Rabal) with whom she maintains incestuous relations. When Domingo passes away, both Mario and Rocío's mother have to put to the front of the business, finishing with the inheritance that could receive Rocío. In the midst of her frustration, a young business worker, secretly in love with Rocío, will try to have the legacy of her father end up in the hands of his rightful heiress.
