Tag: spain
Sex and Lucía
Director: Julio Medem Spain, 2001 Paz Vega’s Lucía is a wilful, independent woman whose romantic Achilles heel is the troubled writer Lorenzo. She could have breezed on through life as easily as crossing a sunlit plaza were it not for the extraordinary entanglements created by her errant scribe. In view of Lucía’s strength of character, …
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
A smash-and-grab of awards for a film that feels rather rushed.
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Heartbreaker Cruz gets a bit of singing help from Estrella Morente to deliver an emotional performance.
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 1981 This is where it all began, the first in a long line of zany, colourful and passionate tales whose collective carnival forms the prodigious output of Almodóvar. Pepi, Luci, Bom gels remarkably considering the conditions in which it was shot. It’s the story of three very different women in a …
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Walk the Line
Demons and diamonds in this biopic of the late Johnny Cash. …
- Originally published: 21 Nov 2006 in Film
Stasimuseum Normannenstraße
The banality of evil: a Stasi boss who ate breakfast while down the corridor prisoners awaited their fate. …
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
A glimmer of London summer
We took a train down to London recently to visit J’s sister. It turned out to be a rare hot weekend in the midst of this disastrously wet summer. Sisters. As if …
- Originally published: 13 Aug 2007 in UK
Making a song and dance about it
A bizarrely comedic take on this weepy monochrome classic. …
- Originally published: 4 Nov 2007 in Theatre
La Gloria para El Mejor
Spain dominated Euro 2008. Is the hegemony of European football changing? …
- Originally published: 30 Jun 2008 in Editorial
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.
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