- The government delegate in Cantabria stressed that this cycle aims to highlight a cultural environment that “faithfully reflected the changes that were taking place in our country”
- Three films will be screened on November 24 and December 1 and 11 at the Ambassadors Cinemas in Santander
The Government Delegation in Cantabria has organized a film series about 50 years of democracy in Spain, which is part of the commemoration ‘Spain in Freedom. 50 years’.
In this cycle, three films will be screened on 24 November and 1 and 11 December, at 7.30 p.m., at the Ambassadorial Cinemas of Santander, on Calle Cisneros 4. The screenings will be freely accessible and free of charge until a capacity is completed.
The government delegate, Pedro Casares, stressed that this cycle aims to value Spanish democracy through cinema, a means of cultural intervention that “faithfully reflected the changes that were taking place in our country.”
“Cinema allows us to appreciate the evolution experienced by the Spanish after the end of Franco’s regime, with the transition and the whole democratic process that allowed the recovery of freedoms and the recognition of rights to citizenship,” said Casares.
The ‘Film Cycle and 50 Years of Democracy’ will begin next Monday, November 24, with the film ‘Women on board a nervous attack’ by director Pedro Almodóvar.
This film, premiered in 1988 and won five Goya Awards, is starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Rossy de Palma and Julieta Serrano, among others.
It tells the story of Pepa and Iván, two dubbing actors. He is a hardened womanizer and, after a long relationship, breaks up with Pepa: he leaves a message on the answering machine asking him to prepare a suitcase with his things.
Pepa, who cannot live in a house full of memories, decides to rent it. While waiting for Ivan to pick up the suitcase, the house is filled with extravagant people from whom he will learn many things about loneliness and madness.
For Monday, December 1, the screening of José Luis Garci’s ‘Back to Start’ has been scheduled.
Premiered in 1982 and recognized with the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1983, it stars Antonio Ferrandis and Encarna Paso and tells the story of an exile who, after the reestablishment of democracy in Spain, returns to his hometown, where he meets again the woman who was the love of his youth.
The series will conclude on Thursday, December 11 with the film ‘Living is easy with your eyes closed’ by David Trueba. This feature film of 2013 and features in its cast Javier Camara, Natalia Molina or Jorge Sanz.
It is inspired by the real story of Juan Carrión Gañán (Madrid 1924-Cartagena 2017), an English teacher who in 1966 traveled to Almería when John Lennon visited the Andalusian city on the occasion of the shooting of the film How I Won the War.