Rainbow (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paco León
Starring: Ayax Pedrosa | Carmen Machi | Carmen Maura | Dora Postigo | Luis Bermejo
Chasing Wonders (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paul Meins
Starring: Antonio de la Torre | Carmen Maura | Edward James Olmos | Francesc Orella | Jessica Marais | Paz Vega | Quim Gutiérrez
Michael says: “Family saga about a multi-generational Spanish family with a successful wine business who move their family business to Australia. The film is told in flashback, when a young man returns home to Spain and discovers that the groundskeeper
Read the review...Let My People Go! (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mikael Buch
Starring: Amira Casar | Carmen Maura | Clément Sibony | Jarkko Niemi | Jean-François Stévenin | Nicolas Maury
Thom says: “This is director Buch’s 1st film and there’s a lot of oomph to the production that mostly works. Ruben is a young, gay. French Jew living in Finland with his Finnish partner, Teemu. He works as a postman
Read the review...Tetro (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich | Carmen Maura | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Maribel Verdú | Vincent Gallo
Diane says: “A hodgepodge from Coppola deals with creative genius and fraternal rivalry. The unevenness shows in the personnel: one character is wonderfully warm and realistic; a few are absurd; another is full of bombast, signifying nothing. Lead Vince Gallo
Read the review...Volver (2006)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Blanca Portillo | Carmen Maura | Chus Lampreave | Lola Dueñas | Penélope Cruz | Yohana Cobo
Bruce says: “Two sisters each harbor a dreadful secret. Glamorous sister Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is trying to cover up her husband’s murder; mousy sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) is fearful that friends and family will discover that the ghost of her
Read the review...Free Zone (2006)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Amos Gitai
Starring: Carmen Maura | Hana Laszlo | Hiam Abbass | Natalie Portman
Michael says: “FREE ZONE is Amos Gitai’s latest film, illuminating life in Israel and all its strife from a decidedly female point of view. The story revolves around three women, an Israeli, an American living in Israel, and a Palestinian
Read the review...The Common Wealth (2005)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Carmen Maura | Eduardo Antuña | Jesús Bonilla | María Asquerino | Marta Fernández Muro | Paca Gabaldón
Michael says: “I try to see any film that Carmen Maura appears in that is released in the States. I still think Pedro Almodóvar’s best films were during the Carmen Maura period. Carmen has done some mediocre films since she
Read the review...Valentín (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Starring: Carmen Maura | Julieta Cardinali | Rodrigo Noya
Michael says: “This lovely Argentinian film certainly feels like the filmmaker looking back on his childhood (I actually have no absolutely nothing about this filmmaker, so I don’t know if that’s true or not.) Alejandro Agresti has written and directed
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