Plunged in straight away yesterday and caught a couple of Spanish films:
El club de los incomprendidos (The Misfits) Dir. Carlos Sede, Spain 2014
- a romantic drama about teenager Maria who reluctantly moves to Madrid with her mother after her parents' break up. She expects the worst of Madrid, especially when sent to therapy sessions at school. However, she the other students in the group quickly become best of friends building each others' confidence and supporting one another through a series of individual traumas including bullying, developing and breaking relationships, sexuality and coming out, deceit and jealousy, exploitation of power positions, etc. - pretty universal themes. The film ends with a crisis which brings them all together and a life affirming ending. Nothin earth-shattering but a sweet feelgood teen movie with appeal beyond that group.
Cómo sobrevivir una despedida (Girls' Night Out) Dir. Manuela Morena, Spain 2014
Billed as redolent of Sex in the City and something of a Hangover meets Women on the Verge.. but with more than a passing resemblance to the plot of the former. Nora (Natalia de Molina) and he group of friends now in their 20s (5 women and Mateo who declares himself 'un poquito gay' in his teens) have known each other since childhood when they specialised in performing Spice Girls numbers together. They 'kidnap' the most staid member of the group to take her on hen week of partying, drinking and sunbathing just before her wedding and get into various scrapes involving copious amounts of alcohol, male strippers and (as per Hangover) waking up amid chaos without remembering a thing - and spend the rest of the film piecing together piecing together the missing 24h. Though not really my kind of thing I did laugh out loud quite a bit!
Entre-films started checking out the overwhelmingly numerous information sources and stands, cruising the Croisette and enjoying the sunshine and sea.
Managed to get to 4 screenings today, Thursday - will blog on those tomorrow - including some really interesting Latin American films. More tomorrow!
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