Now that we have barely overcome the hangover that ‘The Batman’ has left us —which, by the way, has swept the box office—, this new Friday on the calendar leaves us a good string of movie premieres to bring to our mouths. zombies Made in Spain, hanged hitting each other in the most unimaginable ways and international successes crowd into a very large and varied billboard. Let’s see what it offers us!
The premieres of March 11, 2022
‘Bastards’ (2020)
‘Malnazidos’ has been in the fridge since we saw it at Sitges 2019. After passing through the festival, it had a release date set for fall 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponing its release until this 11th of March 2022.
The film is based on the novel by Manuel Martín Ferreras, and in it we can see members of the Republican side and the rebel band allying themselves to fight hordes of the undead in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.
It is co-directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera, whose last work to date was ‘Superlópez’, and by newcomer Alberto de Toro.
Its cast is full of big names from the Spanish acting scene, including Aura Garrido, Miki Esparbé, Luis Callejo and Dafnis Balduz.
Criticism in Espinof: ‘Malnazidos’. An exceptional war adventure with coup plotters, republicans… and tons of undead
‘Cyrano’ (2021)
In this new version of ‘Cyrano’, Haley Bennett and Peter Dinklage repeat the roles they already played in the Goodspeed Musicals musical of the same name that could be seen for a short time off-Broadway in New York in 2019.
This is the sixth collaboration between Joe Wright and director of photography Seamus McGarvey, who left us such visually impressive works as ‘Atonement’, ‘Anna Karenina’ or ‘Pan: Journey to Neverland’.
Haley Bennett and Joe Wright are a couple in real life, and this is their first collaboration together.
But beware, because the screenwriter of the adaptation, Erica Schmidt, is Peter Dinklage’s wife. Everything stays at home…
Criticism in Espinof: ‘Cyrano’: Peter Dinklage stands out as the best of an extravagant musical that never manages to live up to it
Jackass Forever (2022)
The opening scene of the film is directed by Spike Jonze himself, one of the main minds behind the original ‘Jackass’.
According to Johnny Knoxville, this will be his last participation in a franchise project.
Before shooting the film, David England lost one of his teeth, but director Jeff Tremaine told him that it would be better if he waited until the end of filming to replace it with a new one.
Not counting the spinoffs, this is the first ‘Jackass’ movie without Ryan Dunn, who died in a car accident in 2011, and without Rip Taylor, who died in 2019.
It will also be the first ‘Jackass’ film without the participation of the Margera family, mainly due to the strong conflict between Bam and a good part of the team, including Knoxville and Tremaine.
‘The worst person in the world’ (‘Verdens verste menneske’, 2021)
‘The worst person in the world’ is the new film by Joachim Trier, who screened at the Sitges Festival in 2017 with ‘Thelma’, his latest fiction feature film to date.
The film opts for the Oscar for the best international film and the best original screenplay; nomination shared by Trier and Eskil Vogt, director of the wonderful ‘The Innocents’.
It stars Renata Reinsve, whose work earned her the Best Actress Award at the latest Cannes Film Festival.
Its own director defines it as “the romantic comedy for people who hate romantic comedies”.
Criticism in Espinof: Cannes 2021: ‘The worst person in the world’ by Trier and ‘Compartment No. 6’ by Kuosmanen reaffirm the great moment of Nordic cinema
‘Introduction’ (‘Interurodeoksyeon’, 2021)
With a duration of only 66 minutes, ‘Introduction’ managed to win the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the latest edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
It is one of the last three works that the prestigious South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has created between 2021 and 2022.
Hong returns to play the one man band as director, screenwriter, cinematographer, soundtrack composer and editor. Almost nothing.
Plus…
‘The deception’ (‘Shattered’, 2022)
‘Jane for Charlotte’ (‘Jane for Charlotte’, 2021)
Criticism in Espinof: Cannes 2021: ‘Val’ rediscovers Val Kilmer, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s debut film brings us closer to Jane Birkin, and Todd Haynes searches for the genius of ‘The Velvet Underground’
‘The school of magical animals’ (‘Die Schule der magischen Tiere’, 2021)
‘Slalom’ (2020)
‘Escape Room: The Movie’ (2021)
‘9 Leaks’ (2020)
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