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El Parque Natural de La Tinença de Benifassà y las comarcas de El Maestrat y Els Ports se han convertido en el escenario del rodaje de Cowgirl, una comedia romántica rural dirigida por Cristina Fernández y Miguel Llorens (Cosas que hacer antes de morir).

Cowgirl sigue a Empar, una granjera de sesenta años que vive en una zona rural de Els Ports. Su granja depende de que su última vaca, Tona, quede preñada. Después de repetidos fracasos y en contra de su voluntad, se ve obligada a pedir ayuda a Bernat, el propietario de la mayor granja de la zona, para que su semental monte a Tona. Cuando la vaca se queda preñada la alegría de Empar dura poco cuando Martí, el veterinario, le dice que Tona tiene una gestación de riesgo y que cualquier sobresalto que...

Childhood is so often seen as a period of unbridled promise and accumulation — of things, of knowledge, of friends and family — that the death of a parent can seem like the most confounding and terrible of erasures for a still-forming mind to process. For six-year-old Frida (Laia Artigas), the autobiographical protagonist around which Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón has crafted her touching debut feature “Summer 1993,” the loss of her mother puts her in a dizzying confluence of attention, love, discipline, freedom and pain when she’s taken from her city home to live in the Catalan countryside with her aunt and uncle.

But rather than adopt an excuse to turn this hardship material into easy sentiment, Simón treats this very personal matter with a focused, unhurried wisdom for the ways even a left-turn girlhood can still be a celebration of being young, alive and open.

Anchored by a pair of extraordinary...

Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) Oscilloscope Laboratories Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Carla Simón Screenwriter: Carla Simón Cast: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach, Isabel Rocatti Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/15/18 Opens: May 25, 2018 There was a time not so far back that little was known about AIDS, about how […]

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