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Huelva Honors ‘Sex and Lucía’ Star Paz Vega, Frames the Energies of Next Gen Latin American, Spanish Cinema
The 2024 Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival delivers a snapshot on large energies driving filmmaking in Latin America and Spain.
Known to date as a performer – star of Adam Sandler comedy “Spanglish” and Julio Medem’s carnal physiological odyssey “Sex and Lucia” – Vega has just bowed her first feature, the heavily autobiographical “Rita,” to upbeat reviews. Making the cut is Albert Serra ’s San Sebastián’s 2024 Golden Shell winner “Afternoons of Solitude,” highly appreciated by the international press, and “They Will Be Dust,” Carlos Marques-Marcet’s spirited euthanasia drama which won Toronto’s biggest trophy, its Platform Award. Variety called “Afternoons of Solitude” “extraordinary” and “a major work from a richly maturing filmmaker,” while describing Huelva Competition title “Igualada” as a “stirring, behind-the-scenes documentary,” and “Linda” the “best kind of thriller, one that forces its audience to maintain rapt attention.” Currying bullish word of mouth on its San Sebastian bow, “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortes,” the debut film of Antón Alvarez, better known as singer-songwriter C. Tangana, has dazzling set-pieces but it’s in his narrative teasing out of Cortés’ most profound sense of tragedy, that he really shows his narrative chops.
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