Seeing the superb Joel (2018-also reviewed) at the 2020 VIVA!:The 26th Manchester Spanish & Latin American Film Festival at the HOME cinema in Manchester, (but sadly being unable to atted the 2021 edition) I was thrilled to see the line-up for the 28th edition, featuring four Q&A's.
Going online first thing in the morning, I booked tickets for the upcoming Q&A screenings straight away. Counting down the days to my first screening at the festival, my heart went boom when the screening began.
View on the film:
Revealing at the first Q&A held at the festival that making a number of music videos gave him the confidence to make a Musical as his feature film debut, co-writer (with Eduardo Navarro and David Esteban Cubero) / director Nacho Alvarez unleashes a showstopper onto the big screen, with Alvarez & cinematographer Juan Carlos Gomez spinning a exquisite, ultra-stylized Musical atmosphere, weaving sharp close-ups on the detailed clothing, with glossy panning shots capturing colour coming back into Maria's life.
Playing a voice message left by Raffaella Carra after the first screening, where she highly praised how her music had been adapted for the screen, Alvarez gives the toe-tapping colour-coded dazzling Musical set-pieces a rich, decadent mood of shiny whip-pans, arc, tracking shots and razor-sharp zoom-ins dressing the joyful sense of freedom Maria (played with gleeful enthusiasm by Ingrid García Jonsson.)
Although placing a focus on the songs, the screenplay by Alvarez, Navarro and Cubero has Maria find her free independent voice in the last years of General Franco's rule, with Maria going against the TV censorship, (and restrictions others attempt to place on her,over how she can live her life) when her heart goes boom.
Going online first thing in the morning, I booked tickets for the upcoming Q&A screenings straight away. Counting down the days to my first screening at the festival, my heart went boom when the screening began.
View on the film:
Revealing at the first Q&A held at the festival that making a number of music videos gave him the confidence to make a Musical as his feature film debut, co-writer (with Eduardo Navarro and David Esteban Cubero) / director Nacho Alvarez unleashes a showstopper onto the big screen, with Alvarez & cinematographer Juan Carlos Gomez spinning a exquisite, ultra-stylized Musical atmosphere, weaving sharp close-ups on the detailed clothing, with glossy panning shots capturing colour coming back into Maria's life.
Playing a voice message left by Raffaella Carra after the first screening, where she highly praised how her music had been adapted for the screen, Alvarez gives the toe-tapping colour-coded dazzling Musical set-pieces a rich, decadent mood of shiny whip-pans, arc, tracking shots and razor-sharp zoom-ins dressing the joyful sense of freedom Maria (played with gleeful enthusiasm by Ingrid García Jonsson.)
Although placing a focus on the songs, the screenplay by Alvarez, Navarro and Cubero has Maria find her free independent voice in the last years of General Franco's rule, with Maria going against the TV censorship, (and restrictions others attempt to place on her,over how she can live her life) when her heart goes boom.