This week’s films highlight importance of memory
This week sees the release of two Spanish productions – a feature and a documentary – that centre on Spain’s recent past and on people who, through their own choice or that of others, have been driven to the margins of society.
Firstly, The Anarchist’s Wife [+see also:
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film profile], by Peter Sehr and Marie Noëlle – produced by Spain’s Zip Films in co-production with Germany and France – is being launched domestically by Alta Films after a screening at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film’s protagonist – a young, idealistic lawyer and anarchist leader (played by Juan Diego Botto) – becomes separated from his wife during the Civil War. After the conflict, she (María Valverde) moves heaven and earth to find him.
There will be a much more low-key release for Carles Balagué’s documentary Arropiero, el Vagabundo de la Muerte (“Arropiero: Vagabond of Death”), launched by Baditri on a seven-print run. This Diafragma PC production looks at the life of Manuel Delgado Villegas, alias El Arropiero, the most prolific serial killer in Spanish history.
(Translated from Spanish)
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