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Alfonso Rivera


2114 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 12/06/2025.

Gordos

Gordos is a dramatic comedy which, through a host of characters trying to lose weight, explores problems that cause us to suffer from emotional overload  

16/07/2009 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo • Director

“For me, cinema is a form of therapy”

The 39-year-old Madrid-born director is generating high expectations with Gordos (“Fat People”), following the success of his multiple award-winning debut work  

10/07/2009

Interview: Borja Cobeaga • Director

“It’s possible to make good comedies for young people”

Basque director Borja Cobeaga (31), whose short One Too Many was nominated for an Oscar in 2007, makes his feature debut with a film lauded at the Malaga Film Festival  

23/06/2009

The Friend Zone

Radical originality and lack of indulgence in this Spanish debut feature which explores humiliation with a harshness that sets it apart from the usual romantic comedies  

23/06/2009 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Patxi Amézcua • Director

25 kilates

15/06/2009

Interview: Patxi Amézcua • Director

“Adrenaline and tension on a dynamic shoot”

The 40-year-old, Pamplona-born screenwriter, who trained in Los Angeles, makes his directorial debut with a thriller that opened the Zonazine section at the 12th Malaga Film Festival  

30/03/2009

25 kilates

Two characters on the edge of the abyss, a man and a girl who risk their lives to the very end in a tense thriller written and directed by Spain’s Patxi Amézcua  

30/03/2009 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar • Director

"My love letter to cinema"

Journalists from across the world attended the Madrid screening of Broken Embraces, launching the film’s international career  

16/03/2009

Broken Embraces

The Oscar-winning Spanish director pays tribute to his own work in a passionate drama with elements of thriller and comedy, which is his most ambitious film to date  

16/03/2009 | Films | Reviews

The Oxford Murders

Mysterious murders and a mathematician-led investigation full of logic and passion in this cold thriller by popular Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia, starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt  

16/01/2008 | Films | Reviews

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