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Cervantes Film Series: Bajarse al moro

February 27

12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor

Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Honorary Goya

When Fernando Colomo undertook this adaptation of a play by the same name, Bajarse al moro, he was already a key director of the cinematic milestone that was called la comedia madrileña” (The Madrid Comedy) and that featured the auteur cinema of the eighties.

This film departs from the festive tone that guided his previous titles to get much closer to his characters and present a world where other variables such as class or the future reveal a less playful environment. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s character makes a place for herself among her three co-stars who are already part of the canon of our best performers.

Synopsis: Chusa shares an apartment with her cousin, a drug dealer, and her boyfriend, a policeman. To help her cousin, Chusa sometimes smuggles weed from Morocco. Since everyone smokes a little, there is always a need for more. Chusa then decides to go to Morocco with a friend, but this time things don’t go as she thought. [Source: Lola Films]

Screening: Bajarse al moro |  Director/s: Fernando Colomo | Year: 1988 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 90 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Not Rated/Calificacion: TP

The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.

As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.

The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.

Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo

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February 27
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