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Alfonso Rivera


2132 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

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

Interview: Gerardo Herrero and Mariela Besuievsky • Producers

"Our grand work plan"

Tornasol Films, founded in 1987, has produced films by distinguished international directors. They are now hoping for box-office success with this big-budget European co-production  

07/01/2008

Interview: Álex de la Iglesia • Director

"One shouldn’t be a slave to oneself"

A second English-language feature for the successful and popular Spanish director, a film marked by the hints of irony that are part of his particular style  

05/12/2007

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