Michael Fassbender football coach gets into the peculiar ‘The worst team in the world‘ y the Finn Aki Kaurismaki returns with ‘Fallen Leaves’, a delicious love story. They are the two most interesting proposals of the film premieres of the last week of the year, which brings little new.
The worst team in the world, Fassbender and Tiaka Waititi
Director Taika Waititi, responsible for titles such as ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ o ‘Jojo Rabbit’changes gears again with ‘The Worst Team in the World’, a self-improvement film very appropriate for these dates, starring Michael Fassbender, in its second release in 2023 after four years of absence from the cinema.
A sports drama that tells the true story of Dutch coach Thomas Rongen (Fassbender), the architect of carrying out a practically impossible task in sports: he took the reins of the American Samoa soccer team to turn a group of losers into born winners.
Kaurismäki and his special film, ‘Fallen Leaves’
The Finnish Aki Kaurismäki is a very special filmmaker, with a marked style that makes him recognizable almost from the first frame. A static production, surreal characters, saturated colors and a gray world but full of light. Characteristics that are repeated in ‘Fallen Leaves’, one of his best works of his last years.
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, nominated for the Golden Globes for best foreign language film, ‘Fallen Leaves’, which also made the first cut at the Oscars, is the love story of Ansa (Alma Pöysti) , a single woman who works in a supermarket, and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen), another loner and alcoholic.
‘Disco Boy’, first work by Giacomo Abbruzzese
The Italian Giacomo Abbruzzese makes his directorial debut with ‘Disco Boy’, a story of the two sides of a war, from the French side and from the Nigerian side that won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution (to Photography) in the Berlinale.
Aleksei arrives in Paris to enlist in the French Foreign Legion, a very selective military body that allows a French passport to be granted to any foreigner, even undocumented ones. In the Niger Delta, Jomo fights against the oil companies that threaten the survival of his village and his sister Udoka dreams of escape.
A Christmas story starring animals, ‘Kina & Yuk’
Kina and Yuk are two arctic foxes who are about to become parents for the first time pero global warming is changing your life drastically and during a hunting expedition, Yuk gets trapped in a drifting block of ice.
Directed by Frenchman Guillaume Maidatchevsky, the film has in its Spanish version the voice of Jacob Petrus, presenter of ‘Aqui la Tierra’ on TVE, as narrator.
‘Teoria dels cossos’, a Catalan romantic comedy
Joan Ramon Armadàs Monclús makes his directorial debut with ‘Teoria dels cossos’, a romantic comedy about the relationship over the years of two people who meet in different events related to poetry.
Miquel Sitjar and Ivana Miño are the protagonists of a film that also features Francesc Orella.
2023-12-28 08:14:07
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