Jamás leí a Onetti (I have never read Onetti) is a documentary-homage to this great Uruguayan writer, which is enacted with testimonies, words, drawings and music, all part of the Onettian legacy. With the link between different kinds of writing as a starting point, the movie also asks about the means and the ends of all creative process.
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Arrebato / Rapture (1979) Iván Zulueta, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Drama, Horror
Madrid,1980. Jose Sirgado, a labouring bohemian b-movie filmmaker finishes editing the sequel to a previous film. Visibly displeased he journeys home to his girlfriend strung out on heroin. After attempting to tidy his home and taking some heroin himself he opens a mail package from an old acquaintance Pedro P. containing a reel of super-8 film, a cassette tape and a key to his apartment.
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Mi conejo es el mejor (1982) Ricardo Palacios, Lina Romay, Emilio Linder, Elena Álvarez, Drama, Erotic
An eccentric writer finds a desperate girl escaped from a correctional establishment. Soon she realizes that the writer and his maid are perverted sadists who love BDSM games.
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Desnuda en la arena (1969) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Victor Bo, Jorge Porcel, Comedy, Erotic
Sarli plays the role of Alicia who is left behind with a young son when her husband goes to Panama to work. She has affairs with various men, which lead to extortion.
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Strange Bedfellows (1965) Melvin Frank, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Comedy
In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the eve before their divorce becomes final.
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Merry Andrew (1958) Michael Kidd, Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
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Vivir en Sevilla (1978) Gonzalo García Pelayo, Lola la del Agua, Ana Bernal, José Miguel Campos, Comedy, Erotic
Miguel is in love with Rosa, a special woman. The relationship did not work at all and decide to break. Rosa then falls for a Sevillian painter who has returned after forty years of exile
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971) León Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Barbara Capell, Horror
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like.
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El viaje de Carol / Carol’s Journey (2002) Imanol Uribe, Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Álvaro de Luna, Drama, Family
Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother’s home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche.
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A cambio de nada / Nothing in Return (2015) Daniel Guzmán, Miguel Herrán, Antonio Bachiller, Antonia Guzmán, Drama
16 year-old Dario got away from home, running from his familiar hell. Luismi, his unconditional friend, Caralimpia, a poor loser in a winners suit and Antonia, an old lady who collects abandoned furniture in her three-wheeler will become his new family. Three generations meet in a city that’s too big to be alone. It’s summertime.
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