With the collaboration of Filmoteca MAE
All the films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Free entrance
Ese oscuro objeto del deseo
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Duration: 103 min
Production: Francia, 1977
Cast:
Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Carole Bouquet, Julien Bertheau
In French with English subtitles
Date: February 3
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Strictly for Adults
Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly
details the romantic perils of Mathieu, a wealthy, middle-aged French
sophisticate who falls desperately in love with his 19-year-old former
chambermaid Conchita. Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse,
with Mathieu obsessively attempting to win the girl's affections as she
manipulates his carnal desires, each vying to gain absolute control of the
other.
Secretos del corazón
Directed by M. Armendáriz
Duration: 101 min
Production: España, 1997
Cast:
Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt, Vicky Peña, Andoni Erburu
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Date: February 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him
sparks his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama. The story takes place
during a vacation to the hometown of nine-year-old Javi and his brother
Juan's rural farming village in the early 1960s. Their father, they are
told, accidentally killed himself while cleaning his gun, and the room where
the death occurred has been declared off limits to the boys. *Secretos del
corazón* was the winner of four Goya Awards, as well as an Oscar nominee for
Best Foreign Language Film.
La virgen de la lujuria
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Duration: 151 min
Production: México, 2002
Cast:
Ariadna Gil, Luis Felipe Tovar, Juan Diego, Julián Pastor, Patricia Reyes
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Date: February 17
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Strictly for Adults
Mexican director Arturo Ripstein's incredibly lush melodrama *The Virgin of
Lust* makes an ironic statement about a fundamental delusion in the hopes of
Communists to lift up the masses. Set mostly in a café in Vera Cruz, the
film centers upon Nacho (Luis Felipe Tovar), an unambitious worker who one
fateful night finds Lola, a mysterious and promiscuous political radical who
lives so far on the edge that she always seems on the threat of
self-destruction. Nacho, who is hopelessly attracted to her but too afraid
to act upon his impulses, takes her in, and soon the two find themselves in
a masochistic relationship.
En la ciudad
Directed by Cesc Gay
Duration: 110 min
Production: España, 2003
Cast:
Mónica López, Eduard Fernández, Leonor Watling, María Pujalte, Alex
Brendemühl, Vicenta N'Dongo, Chisco Amado
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Date: February 24
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Strictly for Adults
A movie depicting a sincere portrait of urban life in Barcelona. The story
moves around six friends whose sentimental lives are masked with hidden
relationships, fear in expressing sentiments, secrets and lies. Mario is a
serious architect married to Sara who keeps a secretive romance with a
colleague. Mario suspects it, but does not dare to speak about it. Irene and
Manu, on the other hand, seem to be a happy couple, but the truth is that
Irene is like a turtle succumbed in its shell and hides her feelings. Sofía
lives alone who fantasizes realities out of her dreams. And finally, Tomás
who also keeps a secret of a passionate adventure with a young girl. The
film boasts of a magnificent script and great performances by its actors
like Eduard Fernández who won two Best Supporting Actor Awards in Goya (the
Spanish Oscars) and in Spanish Actors Union. But the real standout here is
María Pujalte, as a sensitive woman addicted to romance.
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