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‘Saturn Return,’ ‘Radical,’ ‘Little Loves’ Top Spain’s Malaga Festival
Also winning big: ‘La Casa,’ ‘Rest in Peace,’ ‘Los Pájaros,’ and ’Nina’
MALAGA — Isaki Lacuesta’s “ Saturn Return ” (“Second Prize”), always a frontrunner topped this week’s Malaga Festival winning its best picture and, with co-director Pol Rodríguez, best director awards. Turning on Spanish indie rock group Los Planetas storied attempts to making their third and finally iconic album, but really about people’s need to recast the past as comprehensible narrative and a biopic parody, “Saturn Return” has been hailed by Spanish newspaper El Mundo as a “masterpiece.” Playing Sundance where it was judged a “conventional tearjerker about an inspiring teacher” which “benefits from a terrific ensemble,” Christopher Zalla’s “Radical” walked off with Malaga’s Golden Biznaga for best Ibero-American picture.
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