27/03/2009

Braving the controversy that the film is sure to unleash, directors Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes are releasing their new work Sex, Party and Lies [+see also:
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Produced by Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films, the title will be launched this Friday by Sony Pictures Releasing on a hefty 210 screens.

What was initially meant to be a dramatic comedy – a genre that Albacete and Menkes have made their speciality (Not Love, Just Frenzy and I Will Survive) – ended up becoming a bitter vision of today’s youth, seen as hedonistic and carefree but at the same time incapable of achieving happiness and ceasing to deceive others and themselves.

Ángeles González Sinde, president of the Spanish Film Academy, collaborated with the two directors on the screenplay (as he did on their previous Searching for Love).

The cast features some of the most outstanding TV actors of the new generation, who are well-known among young audiences. These include Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Ana de Armas, Yon González, Ana María Polvorosa, Alejo Sauras, Maxi Iglesias and Asier Etxeandia.

The other Spanish release in this week’s line-up is Chus Gutiérrez’s Return to Hamsala. Like Sex, Party and Lies, the film focuses on contemporary reality, although its theme is totally different.

In his seventh feature, which is partly inspired by real-life events, Gutiérrez tells the story of undertaker Martín (José Luís García-Pérez), who contacts Leila (Farah Hamed), the sister of a boy who died whilst trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. Produced by Maestranza Films and Muac Films, Return to Hamsala will be released by Wanda Vision (who produced The Milk of Sorrow [+see also:
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(Translated from Spanish)