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Paz Vega burns up screens as Saint Teresa

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Four domestic films are opening today – parallel to the Malaga Film Festival, which opens tonight and promises to place the young talent of Spanish cinema in the limelight (see news) – including the much anticipated Teresa: El cuerpo de Cristo [+see also:
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, starring Paz Vega (Lucia y el sexo) as Saint Teresa of Avila.

Directed by Ray Loriga (scriptwriter of Live Flesh, The Seventh Day and Ausentes [+see also:
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), the film begins with young, noble Teresa renouncing luxury and entering a convent.

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Her search for God is portrayed as being both spiritual and of the flesh, which will certainly contribute to the film’s potential controversy although Loriga has rushed to explain: "[Hers] is not a sexual desire but something else more complex and subliminal. That language of ecstatic love towards Christ is patent in Teresa's own writings".

The film also stars Geraldine Chaplin, Leonor Watling, José Luis Gómez, Eusebio Poncela, Álvaro de Luna and Paula Errando.

Produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez for Lolafilms, in collaboration with Artedis (France) and Future Films (UK), Teresa is being released by Azeta Cinema and is part of Lolafilm's line-up for the upcoming Cannes Market.

The other three local releases, which have much smaller promotional campaigns, are Alberto J. Gorritiberea's Eutsi! (distributed by Barton Films), Lluís Danès's Llach: La revolta permanent (Alta Classics) and Invisibles, a title produced by Javier Bardem together with Doctors Without Frontiers, which was shown at last month’s Berlinale (see news) and is being distributed theatrically by Sogepaq.

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