Etiqueta: Black mood
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Saga Sunny Pascal
Bitter Drink | The Tequila Case | A Handful of Bullets (Trago amargo | El caso tequila | Por un puñado de balas) Movie Stars, alcohol, drugs, and mysterious homicides. Bitter Drink. Mexico, 1964. Ava Gardner, Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – among other Hollywood stars – travel to the beach…
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The Desert and it’s Seed (El desierto y su semilla) (Film)
What does the skin hide? A cab ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from the acid thrown at her by her ex-husband while they were signing the divorce papers. Mario, her 22-year-old son, tries to wipe the acid off Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a failed attempt…
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Brian the Brain
A fish out of water. Brian is a gifted child with a hyper-developed brain that can be seen with the naked eye. This "malformation" is the result of ultrasound experiments his mother had to undergo in a biological research center whilst he was in her womb. Although Brian must be very careful not…
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Sour Milk (La mala leche)
Since when did being a mother and sexual desire not coincide? Nani is a young woman who is going through motherhood for the first time. This makes her suffer from mood swings and sudden bursts of anger and anxiety for reasons ranging from unresolved sexual desires, fear of death, subtle male chauvinism or…
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Spring for Madrid (Primavera para Madrid)
A story of self-interests and corruption that proves that for every saint there is an infinite legion of demons. The collapse of the oligarchic elite in Madrid, a seemingly untouchable group within the Spanish society, caused a ruckus. In this story, the lives of these corrupt and elitist characters are portrayed – with an…
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Collateral Inheritance (Herencias colaterales)
The past kills. Ernest Claramunt, a distinguished lawyer, makes an agreement with Mrs. Puigmajor, an old woman almost 80 years old. He will pay her a pension for life and, in exchange, her wonderful apartment in the center of Barcelona will be the property of the Claramunt family after her death. However, no one would…
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The Laws of Relativity Applied to Sexual Relations (Las leyes de la relatividad aplicadas a las relaciones sexuales)
It’s all relative. Nothing is true. Whenever there are two people, everything automatically becomes relative. This dark humor tragicomedy tells four simultaneous urban stories of young people facing infidelity, death, love, loneliness, and well-meaning erotic homicide. Seven characters cross paths throughout these stories: a woman who talks to the wife of the man…
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My Downstairs Neighbor (El vecino de abajo)
“I’ve done so many things for love, but I had the feeling that what I was able to do for hate had no limits”. An anonymous female translator has a quiet and simple life which is suddenly interrupted by the domestic reforms her downstairs neighbor is doing. All those twelve-hour-long noises…
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The bewildered king’s chronicle (Crónica del rey pasmado)
At the beginning of the 17th century, the King of Spain –a young immature boy- wants to see his queen naked, even when the Church and the Government refuse this action since they see in it dark plans for the future of the Empire. The king finds the support he needs in a noble man…
