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Spanish cinema in 2011: 12 months of comedies and thrillers (Part 1)

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Spanish cinema says goodbye to a rather negative 2010 (despite the high average level of quality and a few isolated milestones, such as the Oscar for The Secret In Their Eyes [+see also:
trailer
making of
Interview Juan José Campanella [IT]
Interview Ricardo Darín [IT]
Interview Soledad Villemin [IT]
film profile
]
and Venice triumph for A Sad Trumpet Ballad [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Álex de la Iglesia
film profile
]
, audiences continue to spurn domestic films) and prefers to look ahead to a very hopeful 2011, with lots of releases for all audiences, the return of great masters and a rate of film launches maintained throughout the year, although spring and autumn will be the busiest periods.

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Shining out from the rest is Pedro Almodóvar, who, despite the relative commercial failure of Broken Embraces [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pedro Almodóvar
film profile
]
, continues to be the most important name in Spanish cinema. In September, he will release The Skin I Live In (see news), whose main commercial pulling point is its reunion between the La Mancha-born director and Antonio Banderas.

Two genres dominate production this year: comedies and thrillers. They are favourites with audiences and, especially in the case of the latter, with international buyers, who identify new Spanish cinema with an innovative approach to genre film.

Heading the list of comedies is the fourth part in the Torrente series, by Santiago Segura, who, despite his lack of popularity with critics, is a safe bet at the Spanish box office (almost 12m admissions for his three previous instalments). This is followed by Midnight in Paris, the latest collaboration between US director Woody Allen and Catalan producer Jaume Roures (Mediapro); Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s third feature Primos (“Cousins”, see news), the first production by Atípica Films, here in co-production with Mod Producciones; small film Extraterrestrial (see news), directed by Nacho Vigalondo while he prepares the much more ambitious Windows; Tom Fernández’s What’s A Bear For? (see news), starring Javier Cámara; and Oriol Capel’s No Lo Llames Amor, Llámalo X (“Don’t Call It Love, Call It X”), a new production from Antena 3 Films (see news).

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(Translated from Spanish)

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