Horacio Valcárcel — Playwright (11)

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Double Feature (1984)
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other title: Sesión continua / 重復放映 …
Director José Luis Garci has turned his camera inward on filmmakers and screenwriters to portray them as so self-absorbed in the creative process that there is no other world, no other human relationship that can compete. As José (Adolfo Marsillach) and Federico (Jesus Puente) work together on a new screenplay, their interactions with their family (José's teen daughters, Federico's wife) disappear under the all-consuming task of creation. The daughters give up and go off on their own, and the wife joins a convent while Federico barely notices. And when the producer is interrupted by profound grief at the sudden death of his older son, he almost automatically returns to thinking about the film project when the funeral has ended. Garci honors many great directors at the beginning of this film, and the film continues to play out as an elaboration on this homage -- an illustration both of the dedication and the cost of filmmaking, no judgments given.

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Wait for Me in Heaven (1988)
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other title: Das Ohrläppchen des Diktators / Espérame en el cielo …
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.

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Tobi (1978)
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Antonio Mercero actor: 洛洛·加西亚
other title: 白翼男孩
这是一个背上长出了一对翅膀的小男孩的故事。男孩看起来像天使, 他引起了社区的关注,包括医生、科学家和同学。 翅膀被手术切除,但最终它们又长回来了。

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You're the one (2000)
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何塞·路易斯·加尔西 actor: 莉迪亚·博奇 / 茱莉亚·古铁雷兹·卡巴 …
other title: 你就是那一个 / una historia de entonces
影片描述了一女孩从悲痛中重新找回自己的故事。1946年的马德里,茱莉亚收到她的男友死在狱中的讯息,为此悲痛不已。为了帮助自己度过这段伤心的往事,她一个人开着车,到奥地利的一个乡下小镇去,在那里她的家族有一座大庄园,有许多她儿时的美好回忆,或许能帮助她度过难关。这一座庄园是由她的姑姑,与她的媳妇、孙子一同管理着。有一天,一个陌生的年轻人来到庄园,亲手交给茱莉亚一封信,原来这个年轻人是她男友在狱中的朋友,他特地带来男友临死前所写的遗书,茱莉亚颤抖着打开了这封信……

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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 (2004)
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other title: 旋转木马 / Tiovivo c. 1950
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.