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Goya Awards 2020: The crème of Spanish film
26/01/2020
SPAIN'S national answer to the Oscars and named after one of the country's greatest master painters from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Goya Awards are almost as famous worldwide as Cannes' Palmes d'Or – if you can't actually win an Oscar, a Goya is a great substitute, although if you're Pedro Almodóvar, you could end up with both.
You might have guessed it, and probably even expected it, since cult director Almodóvar rarely fails to come up with the goods – and often has you re-watching and even hooked on films whose synopsis would have put you right off them if you'd read them beforehand – but the Castilla-La Mancha-born genius' latest creation, Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory') cleaned up at last night's Goyas.
It was up against some seriously meaty and popular films which have proven to be box-office successes, so the director's and cast's household names were not a guarantee of multiple awards – although with an Oscar nomination for Best International Film and with its lead, Antonio Banderas, up for what could be the first Oscar of his long career, some might say the results were a foregone conclusion.
UK cinema also made its presence felt on Spanish soil last night – Danny Boyle's Yesterday, a rom-com focused on The Beatles' music and adapted for screen by the legendary Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love, Actually, Notting Hill, The Vicar of Dibley) earned a nomination, although it was pipped at the post by France's Ladj Ly's adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables.
Let's take a look at the winners, and those who had the huge honour of being nominated for one of these prestigious film awards.
Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory')
Veteran film director Salvador Mallo (Banderas) is long past his professional prime and suffering a creative crisis, just as one of his old productions, Sabor (Flavor) is remade and released. A reunion and rapprochement with Sabor's lead actor Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia) 30 years on from the original and a falling-out between the pair sets off a chain of events which leads Mallo to revisit his past, from his childhood in the 1960s after moving to what was then the primitive village of Paterna (but which is now a large town with a direct metro connection to Valencia city), his first adult love in Madrid, the pain of separation, the heady days of the Movida in Spain's capital – a free-thinking post-censorship 1980s' musical, artistic and cultural renaissance – and uncovers his burgeoning homosexuality, through his crush on the family's domestic worker whom he as a child (played by Asier Flores) taught to read and write, to his lover Federico (Leonardo Sbaraglia).
Mallo's relationship with his mother in his childhood (played by Penélope Cruz) and in adulthood (played by Julieta Serrano), a shock visit to an art exhibition, and how far he decides it is safe to bring the past back to life makes for emotive, difficult, powerful and intriguing viewing.
Covering issues such as ageing and physical deterioration, painful life milestones, drugs, lost love and personal redemption, Dolor y Gloria is semi-autobiographical, taking its influences from the life of Almodóvar (second picture) himself, and was voted Best Film of 2019 by Time magazine.
Last night, it won Goyas for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Original Script, Best Lead Actor for Antonio Banderas (first picture), Best Supporting Actress for Julieta Serrano, Best Scenery for its set designer Teresa Font, and Best Original Music for its composer Alberto Iglesias.
Dolor y Gloria also earned nominations for Best Lead Actress for Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actor for Asier Etxeandia and for Leonardo Sbaraglia, Best Artistic Direction for Antxón Gómez, Best Photographic Direction for José Luis Alcaine, Best Soundtrack for Sergio Bürmann, Pelayo Gutiérrez and Marc Orts, Best Production for Toni Novella, Best Costume Design for Paola Torres, and Best Hair and Makeup for Ana Lozano, Sergio Pérez Berbel and Montse Ribé.
La Trinchera Infinita ('The Infinite Trench')
When the Spanish Civil War breaks out in 1936, Higinio (Antonio de la Torre) hides in his home, terrified of being shot by dictator General Franco's supporters – but does not leave the house again for 33 years, until 1969. During this time, his ordeal is shared by his wife Rosa (Belén Cuesta).
The film is based upon the true story of the mayor of Mijas (Málaga province), Manuel Cortés, who lived hidden at home for three decades during Spain's Second Republic and whose tale eventually became known through the 2011 documentary, 30 Años de Oscuridad ('30 Years of Darkness').
Belén Cuesta won Best Lead Actress for her part as Higinio's wife Rosa, beating Penélope Cruz to the award.
Vicente Vergara was nominated for Best New Actor, Laurent Dufrèche and Raúl López for Best Scenery, Pepe Domínguez for Best Artistic Direction, Pascal Gaigne for Best Original Music, José Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo for Best Original Script, Javi Agirre Erauso for Best Photographic Direction, Iñaki Díez, Alazne Ameztoy, Xanti Salvador and Nacho Royo-Villanova for Best Soundtrack, Ander Sistiaga for Best Production, Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero and Nacho Díaz for Best Hair and Makeup, Lourdes Fuentes and Saioa Lara for Best Costume Design, and it was also nominated for Best Special Effects.
Mientras Dure la Guerra ('While the War is On')
Non-Spaniards are probably most familiar with director Alejandro Amenábar for his ghostly wartime tale The Others, starring Nicole Kidman, and his contribution to the Tom Cruise 'afterlife' epic Vanilla Sky, based upon the Almenábar original Abre los Ojos ('Open Your Eyes'), where Penélope Cruz played the same part in each version.
He may also be known by Anglo-Saxon arthouse film fans for Tesis ('Thesis') and Mar Adentro ('The Sea Inside'), starring Bond villain and 'Mr Penélope Cruz' Javier Bardem (Skyfall, Eat, Pray, Love, No Country for Old Men) as Ramón Sampedro who, paralysed from the neck down, fights for the right to euthanasia.
Both of these were mainstream silver-screen productions in Spain, where they were so popular that they reached 'indie' film theatres, with subtitles, elsewhere in the world.
Returning to a wartime theme, but in Spain this time, Amenábar's epic Mientras Dure la Guerra (picture three, screen shot by Teresa Isasi) centres on the nationally-acclaimed Bilbao-born 'Generation of '98' novelist and playwright, Miguel de Unamuno, who was also dean of the 'Oxford of Spain', the University of Salamanca.
When the Civil War breaks out in July 1936, Unamuno joins the political counter-revolution and makes a sizeable donation to the failed military coup against Franco. He is stripped of his dean position, but the rebel troops and their National Defence Junta, led by General Cabanellas, help him win it back.
A 'minor' character in the film gradually takes more and more of the limelight – none other than General Francisco Franco, who is depicted with his family and supporters, including the notorious General Millán-Astray.
When Unamuno's friends are imprisoned and waiting to be shot by firing squad, the writer seeks a personal audience with Franco to ask him for mercy – but the dictator refuses to budge.
The film ends when Franco is declared national leader on October 1 – although this would not be 'official' until his side had won the Civil War in 1939.
Mientras Dure la Guerra does not continue as far as the end of Unamuno's life, which was New Year's Eve 1936, when he passed away suddenly during house arrest.
Amenábar's hard-hitting production is based upon the true story of Unamuno's part in the War, which led him to receiving hundreds of letters from the wives of friends, acquaintances and even total strangers urging him to help save their husbands from Franco's firing squad, to his personally confronting Millán-Astray, and to his jailed friends' being executed despite his efforts.
The film won the Goya for Best Artistic Direction, for Juan Pedro de Gaspar, Best Production, for Carla Pérez de Albéniz, and Eduard Fernández, for his rôle as Millán-Astray, won Best Supporting Actor.
It also won Best Hair and Makeup, for Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver and Nacho Díaz, and Best Costume Design for Sonia Grande.
Nathalie Poza was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her part as Ana Carrasco, wife of Casto Prieto Carrasco – who was mayor of Salamanca and its main anti-Franco leader, and who was assassinated by rebels in July 1936 for refusing to take part in the military coup.
Santi Prego, who played the part of Franco, was nominated for Best New Actor, whilst Ainhoa Santamaría – cast as Enriqueta Carbonell, wife of Unamuno's protestant pastor friend Atilano Cocó, who was murdered by Franco's régime – was nominated for Best New Actress.
Other nominations were for Best Scenery, for set designer Carolina Martínez Urbina, Best Original Music, for Amenábar himself, Best Original Script, for Amenábar and Alejandro Hernández, Best Photographic Direction, for Álex Catalán, Best Soundtrack, for Aitor Berenguer and Gabriel Gutiérrez, and Best Special Effects.
Other Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress nominations
Running against La Trinchera Infinita, Mientras Dure la Guerra and Dolor y Gloria were Intemperie ('In All Weathers'), about a troubled child who runs away from his village to live out in the wilds of the plains, a western-inspired production for which young actor Jaime López had to learn to milk cows and ride horses; Lo Que Arde ('Fire Will Come'), in the fourth picture by FilmAffinity, about forest fires raging in north-western Galicia and a famous arsonist who, released from prison, is accused of starting them – a film that was also nominated for Best Direction for Óliver Laxe and which won Best New Actress for Benedicta Sánchez, who plays the arsonist's mother, and Best Photographic Direction for Mauro Herce.
Nominated for Best Lead Actor was Luis Tosar as Galicia drug baron Antonio Padín in Quien a Hierro Mata ('He Who Kills With Iron'), who ends up in a nursing home now run by his children and who try to convince long-standing carer Mario (Enric Auquer) to persuade him to pay off a debt he still has with Colombian drug lords after a massive smuggling operation failed. Auquer won Best New Actor, and David Machado, Gabriel Gutiérrez and Yasmina Praderas were nominated for Best Soundtrack.
Facing Penélope Cruz and Belén Cuesta in the battle for Best Lead Actress was Greta Fernández, from La Hija de un Ladrón ('A Thief's Daughter'), about 22-year-old new mum Sara's attempt to keep her newly-released prisoner father away from her loved ones – the film won Belén Funes Best Director - and Marta Nieto who plays the title rôle of Elena in Madre ('Mother'), a psychological thriller about a mum whose six-year-old boy goes missing on a northern French beach. Elena ends up living near this beach 10 years later and running a restaurant, is just coming out of the dark tunnel of depression caused by her son's disappearance, when Jean, a French teenager (Jules Porier) appears on the scene and reminds her of her missing boy. The film also earned Alberto del Campo a nomination for Best Scenery and Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen for Best Adapted Script.
In Adiós, prisoner Juan (Mario Casas) is on family leave to attend his young daughter's First Communion in Sevilla, and her sudden accidental death uncover a network of police corruption and drug-smuggling which end up in the hands of a headstrong female inspector who has to grapple with the police and with the little girl's father. Mona Martínez and Natalia de Molina were nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and Pilar Gómez for Best New Actress.
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia was nominated for Best New Direction for El Hoyo ('The Platform'), which won Best Special Effects – in the far-off future, prisoners are kept in vertical cells and witness how inmates of the ones above are eaten by those below when extreme hunger strikes in a 'survival-of-the-fittest' thriller where there are 'only three types of person', according to FilmAffinity: those above, those below, and those who decide to jump out.
Other categories include Best Animated Short Film, won by Madrid 2120; Best Short Documentary, won by Nuestra Vida Como Niños Refugiados en Europa ('Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe'); Best Short Fiction Film, won by Suc de Síndria ('Watermelon Juice'); Best Animated Film, in which cult wartime director Luis Buñuel is placed in a labyrinth of turtles in the winning Buñuel en el Laberinto de las Tortugas; Best Documentary Film, won by Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas ('Ara Malikian: A Life Between the Strings'), about the life of the famous Lebanese violinist of the same name; Best Latin American Film, won by La Odisea de los Giles ('Heroic Losers'), from Argentina – and of course, Best European Film.
Ladj Ly's Les Misérables did exceptionally well to beat a Richard Curtis-Danny Boyle film starring pop great Ed Sheeran as himself, so if you get to see either, you'll be, in effect, taking a piece of Spanish cultural history away with you – likewise the other two nominations for the category, Gräns ('Border'), by Ali Abbasi, about super-efficient customs officer Tina whose extraordinary ability to smell guilt is put to the test when Vore the vampire passes through, and Céline Sciamma's Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu ('Portrait of a Lady on Fire'), a romantic drama about a lady artist and a nun leaving a convent to get married.
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SPAIN'S national answer to the Oscars and named after one of the country's greatest master painters from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Goya Awards are almost as famous worldwide as Cannes' Palmes d'Or – if you can't actually win an Oscar, a Goya is a great substitute, although if you're Pedro Almodóvar, you could end up with both.
You might have guessed it, and probably even expected it, since cult director Almodóvar rarely fails to come up with the goods – and often has you re-watching and even hooked on films whose synopsis would have put you right off them if you'd read them beforehand – but the Castilla-La Mancha-born genius' latest creation, Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory') cleaned up at last night's Goyas.
It was up against some seriously meaty and popular films which have proven to be box-office successes, so the director's and cast's household names were not a guarantee of multiple awards – although with an Oscar nomination for Best International Film and with its lead, Antonio Banderas, up for what could be the first Oscar of his long career, some might say the results were a foregone conclusion.
UK cinema also made its presence felt on Spanish soil last night – Danny Boyle's Yesterday, a rom-com focused on The Beatles' music and adapted for screen by the legendary Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love, Actually, Notting Hill, The Vicar of Dibley) earned a nomination, although it was pipped at the post by France's Ladj Ly's adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables.
Let's take a look at the winners, and those who had the huge honour of being nominated for one of these prestigious film awards.
Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory')
Veteran film director Salvador Mallo (Banderas) is long past his professional prime and suffering a creative crisis, just as one of his old productions, Sabor (Flavor) is remade and released. A reunion and rapprochement with Sabor's lead actor Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia) 30 years on from the original and a falling-out between the pair sets off a chain of events which leads Mallo to revisit his past, from his childhood in the 1960s after moving to what was then the primitive village of Paterna (but which is now a large town with a direct metro connection to Valencia city), his first adult love in Madrid, the pain of separation, the heady days of the Movida in Spain's capital – a free-thinking post-censorship 1980s' musical, artistic and cultural renaissance – and uncovers his burgeoning homosexuality, through his crush on the family's domestic worker whom he as a child (played by Asier Flores) taught to read and write, to his lover Federico (Leonardo Sbaraglia).
Mallo's relationship with his mother in his childhood (played by Penélope Cruz) and in adulthood (played by Julieta Serrano), a shock visit to an art exhibition, and how far he decides it is safe to bring the past back to life makes for emotive, difficult, powerful and intriguing viewing.
Covering issues such as ageing and physical deterioration, painful life milestones, drugs, lost love and personal redemption, Dolor y Gloria is semi-autobiographical, taking its influences from the life of Almodóvar (second picture) himself, and was voted Best Film of 2019 by Time magazine.
Last night, it won Goyas for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Original Script, Best Lead Actor for Antonio Banderas (first picture), Best Supporting Actress for Julieta Serrano, Best Scenery for its set designer Teresa Font, and Best Original Music for its composer Alberto Iglesias.
Dolor y Gloria also earned nominations for Best Lead Actress for Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actor for Asier Etxeandia and for Leonardo Sbaraglia, Best Artistic Direction for Antxón Gómez, Best Photographic Direction for José Luis Alcaine, Best Soundtrack for Sergio Bürmann, Pelayo Gutiérrez and Marc Orts, Best Production for Toni Novella, Best Costume Design for Paola Torres, and Best Hair and Makeup for Ana Lozano, Sergio Pérez Berbel and Montse Ribé.
La Trinchera Infinita ('The Infinite Trench')
When the Spanish Civil War breaks out in 1936, Higinio (Antonio de la Torre) hides in his home, terrified of being shot by dictator General Franco's supporters – but does not leave the house again for 33 years, until 1969. During this time, his ordeal is shared by his wife Rosa (Belén Cuesta).
The film is based upon the true story of the mayor of Mijas (Málaga province), Manuel Cortés, who lived hidden at home for three decades during Spain's Second Republic and whose tale eventually became known through the 2011 documentary, 30 Años de Oscuridad ('30 Years of Darkness').
Belén Cuesta won Best Lead Actress for her part as Higinio's wife Rosa, beating Penélope Cruz to the award.
Vicente Vergara was nominated for Best New Actor, Laurent Dufrèche and Raúl López for Best Scenery, Pepe Domínguez for Best Artistic Direction, Pascal Gaigne for Best Original Music, José Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo for Best Original Script, Javi Agirre Erauso for Best Photographic Direction, Iñaki Díez, Alazne Ameztoy, Xanti Salvador and Nacho Royo-Villanova for Best Soundtrack, Ander Sistiaga for Best Production, Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero and Nacho Díaz for Best Hair and Makeup, Lourdes Fuentes and Saioa Lara for Best Costume Design, and it was also nominated for Best Special Effects.
Mientras Dure la Guerra ('While the War is On')
Non-Spaniards are probably most familiar with director Alejandro Amenábar for his ghostly wartime tale The Others, starring Nicole Kidman, and his contribution to the Tom Cruise 'afterlife' epic Vanilla Sky, based upon the Almenábar original Abre los Ojos ('Open Your Eyes'), where Penélope Cruz played the same part in each version.
He may also be known by Anglo-Saxon arthouse film fans for Tesis ('Thesis') and Mar Adentro ('The Sea Inside'), starring Bond villain and 'Mr Penélope Cruz' Javier Bardem (Skyfall, Eat, Pray, Love, No Country for Old Men) as Ramón Sampedro who, paralysed from the neck down, fights for the right to euthanasia.
Both of these were mainstream silver-screen productions in Spain, where they were so popular that they reached 'indie' film theatres, with subtitles, elsewhere in the world.
Returning to a wartime theme, but in Spain this time, Amenábar's epic Mientras Dure la Guerra (picture three, screen shot by Teresa Isasi) centres on the nationally-acclaimed Bilbao-born 'Generation of '98' novelist and playwright, Miguel de Unamuno, who was also dean of the 'Oxford of Spain', the University of Salamanca.
When the Civil War breaks out in July 1936, Unamuno joins the political counter-revolution and makes a sizeable donation to the failed military coup against Franco. He is stripped of his dean position, but the rebel troops and their National Defence Junta, led by General Cabanellas, help him win it back.
A 'minor' character in the film gradually takes more and more of the limelight – none other than General Francisco Franco, who is depicted with his family and supporters, including the notorious General Millán-Astray.
When Unamuno's friends are imprisoned and waiting to be shot by firing squad, the writer seeks a personal audience with Franco to ask him for mercy – but the dictator refuses to budge.
The film ends when Franco is declared national leader on October 1 – although this would not be 'official' until his side had won the Civil War in 1939.
Mientras Dure la Guerra does not continue as far as the end of Unamuno's life, which was New Year's Eve 1936, when he passed away suddenly during house arrest.
Amenábar's hard-hitting production is based upon the true story of Unamuno's part in the War, which led him to receiving hundreds of letters from the wives of friends, acquaintances and even total strangers urging him to help save their husbands from Franco's firing squad, to his personally confronting Millán-Astray, and to his jailed friends' being executed despite his efforts.
The film won the Goya for Best Artistic Direction, for Juan Pedro de Gaspar, Best Production, for Carla Pérez de Albéniz, and Eduard Fernández, for his rôle as Millán-Astray, won Best Supporting Actor.
It also won Best Hair and Makeup, for Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver and Nacho Díaz, and Best Costume Design for Sonia Grande.
Nathalie Poza was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her part as Ana Carrasco, wife of Casto Prieto Carrasco – who was mayor of Salamanca and its main anti-Franco leader, and who was assassinated by rebels in July 1936 for refusing to take part in the military coup.
Santi Prego, who played the part of Franco, was nominated for Best New Actor, whilst Ainhoa Santamaría – cast as Enriqueta Carbonell, wife of Unamuno's protestant pastor friend Atilano Cocó, who was murdered by Franco's régime – was nominated for Best New Actress.
Other nominations were for Best Scenery, for set designer Carolina Martínez Urbina, Best Original Music, for Amenábar himself, Best Original Script, for Amenábar and Alejandro Hernández, Best Photographic Direction, for Álex Catalán, Best Soundtrack, for Aitor Berenguer and Gabriel Gutiérrez, and Best Special Effects.
Other Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress nominations
Running against La Trinchera Infinita, Mientras Dure la Guerra and Dolor y Gloria were Intemperie ('In All Weathers'), about a troubled child who runs away from his village to live out in the wilds of the plains, a western-inspired production for which young actor Jaime López had to learn to milk cows and ride horses; Lo Que Arde ('Fire Will Come'), in the fourth picture by FilmAffinity, about forest fires raging in north-western Galicia and a famous arsonist who, released from prison, is accused of starting them – a film that was also nominated for Best Direction for Óliver Laxe and which won Best New Actress for Benedicta Sánchez, who plays the arsonist's mother, and Best Photographic Direction for Mauro Herce.
Nominated for Best Lead Actor was Luis Tosar as Galicia drug baron Antonio Padín in Quien a Hierro Mata ('He Who Kills With Iron'), who ends up in a nursing home now run by his children and who try to convince long-standing carer Mario (Enric Auquer) to persuade him to pay off a debt he still has with Colombian drug lords after a massive smuggling operation failed. Auquer won Best New Actor, and David Machado, Gabriel Gutiérrez and Yasmina Praderas were nominated for Best Soundtrack.
Facing Penélope Cruz and Belén Cuesta in the battle for Best Lead Actress was Greta Fernández, from La Hija de un Ladrón ('A Thief's Daughter'), about 22-year-old new mum Sara's attempt to keep her newly-released prisoner father away from her loved ones – the film won Belén Funes Best Director - and Marta Nieto who plays the title rôle of Elena in Madre ('Mother'), a psychological thriller about a mum whose six-year-old boy goes missing on a northern French beach. Elena ends up living near this beach 10 years later and running a restaurant, is just coming out of the dark tunnel of depression caused by her son's disappearance, when Jean, a French teenager (Jules Porier) appears on the scene and reminds her of her missing boy. The film also earned Alberto del Campo a nomination for Best Scenery and Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen for Best Adapted Script.
In Adiós, prisoner Juan (Mario Casas) is on family leave to attend his young daughter's First Communion in Sevilla, and her sudden accidental death uncover a network of police corruption and drug-smuggling which end up in the hands of a headstrong female inspector who has to grapple with the police and with the little girl's father. Mona Martínez and Natalia de Molina were nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and Pilar Gómez for Best New Actress.
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia was nominated for Best New Direction for El Hoyo ('The Platform'), which won Best Special Effects – in the far-off future, prisoners are kept in vertical cells and witness how inmates of the ones above are eaten by those below when extreme hunger strikes in a 'survival-of-the-fittest' thriller where there are 'only three types of person', according to FilmAffinity: those above, those below, and those who decide to jump out.
Other categories include Best Animated Short Film, won by Madrid 2120; Best Short Documentary, won by Nuestra Vida Como Niños Refugiados en Europa ('Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe'); Best Short Fiction Film, won by Suc de Síndria ('Watermelon Juice'); Best Animated Film, in which cult wartime director Luis Buñuel is placed in a labyrinth of turtles in the winning Buñuel en el Laberinto de las Tortugas; Best Documentary Film, won by Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas ('Ara Malikian: A Life Between the Strings'), about the life of the famous Lebanese violinist of the same name; Best Latin American Film, won by La Odisea de los Giles ('Heroic Losers'), from Argentina – and of course, Best European Film.
Ladj Ly's Les Misérables did exceptionally well to beat a Richard Curtis-Danny Boyle film starring pop great Ed Sheeran as himself, so if you get to see either, you'll be, in effect, taking a piece of Spanish cultural history away with you – likewise the other two nominations for the category, Gräns ('Border'), by Ali Abbasi, about super-efficient customs officer Tina whose extraordinary ability to smell guilt is put to the test when Vore the vampire passes through, and Céline Sciamma's Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu ('Portrait of a Lady on Fire'), a romantic drama about a lady artist and a nun leaving a convent to get married.
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