Beneath the otherwise hackneyed moral parallels of También la Lluvia, the courageous words of Montesino uneasily occupy the dramatic summit: that moment when the Spanish colonists (and their foils,
the Spanish film cast) have to choose whether they will feel, or numb themselves to, the plight of the indigenous.
Not exact matches
Her discovery by director Robert Rodriguez, who
cast her in his 1995
film Desperado, gave Hayek her breakthrough, and she subsequently gained a reputation as one of Hollywood's sexiest and busiest actresses.The daughter of a
Spanish mother and Lebanese father, Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on September 2, 1966.
To Spain they go, where Hemingway lends a hand — and later his voice — to the anti-Franco propaganda
film The
Spanish Earth, made by the great Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens (well played, in an audacious bit of
casting, by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich) in collaboration with the writer John Dos Passos (David Strathairn) and photographer Robert Capa (Santiago Cabrera).
The
film is set to be Epic indeed, with huge
Spanish sets and reports of thousands of extras being
cast.
Spanish actress Rossy de Palma, British - US director Terry Gilliam, French - Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, US actor Adam Driver and Portuguese actress Joana Ribeiro arrive on May 19, 2018 with
cast members for the closing ceremony and the screening of the
film «The Man Who Killed Don Quixote» at the 71st edition of the Cannes
Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.
Many criticized the
film on its initial release for largely ignoring the plight of the locals while focusing on a privileged European family, while others lambasted it for further Anglicizing the project by
casting Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor instead of
Spanish actors as the parents.
Very Good (3 stars) Unrated In
Spanish with subtitles Running time: 97 minutes Distributor: Music Box Films DVD Extras: Commentary by co-stars Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers; interviews with Antonia Zegers and director Pablo Larrain; Berlinale press conference excerpt; and a collector's booklet featuring
cast and crews interviews and an essay by
film critic Jessica Kiang.
Filmed entirely in English, the main
casting is led by the British Eddie Marsan («7 days in Entebbe», «Ray Donovan», «Atomic», «Sherlock Holmes»), Paul Anderson («Peaky Blinders», «Hostiles»,» The Reborn «-RRB- and the
Spanish Ivana Baquero («The chronicles of Shannara `,» The Club of the Uncommitted «and Goya Revelation Actress 2007 for» The Labyrinth of the Faun «-RRB-.