La soledad (2007/I)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Jaime Rosales

Writers:

Jaime Rosales (writer)
Enric Rufas (writer)

Release Date:

1 June 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid. |

Plot Keywords:

Bombing | Sister Sister Relationship | Iron | Female Full Frontal Nudity | Apartment

Awards:

10 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sonia Almarcha	...	Adela
Petra Martínez	...	Antonia
Miriam Correa	...	Inés
Nuria Mencía	...	Nieves
María Bazán	...	Helena
Jesús Cracio	...	Manolo
Lluís Villanueva	...	Carlos
Luis Bermejo	...	Alberto
Juan Margallo	...	Padre
José Luis Torrijo	...	Pedro
Carmen Gutiérrez	...	Miriam
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gregory Brossard	...	Victim bus
Paul Lostau
Adrián Marín	...	Market's boy
Roberto Mori
Pep Sais

Also Known As:

Solitary Fragments (International: English title)
A Solidão (Portugal) [pt]
Einsame Fragmente (Germany) [de]
La solitude (France) [fr]
Solitary Fragments (Greece) (festival title) [el]

Runtime:

France:135 min | Greece:128 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Portugal:M/12

Company:

In Vitro Films

A mountain of ironing

I never saw anything as dreadful as this movie in my life. Never, I swear! It looks as done with a few Euro (for the camera rental), and nobody working on it got paid I'm sure. It couldn't possibly be any other way; everything is so static that one could fall asleep in every scene --they are THAT LONG--, the camera remains static for minutes at a time, the characters speak utterly boring lines. The split screen is done with a vengeance to the bitter end of this horrible movie, almost for every scene. One is forced to seat and seat, watching them do household chores like ironing COMPLETELY two T shirts (or something similar), from the beginning: One sleeve, right side (sloooowly), turn it, the other side, turn it; now the other sleeve (sloooowly), turn it, the other side, whoops! don't miss that wrinkle! okay, now the body of the shirt, be careful because it has to look very nice, let's see, first this side, now turn it (sloooowly), the other side..., NOW WE FOLD THE DAMNED THING...(sloooowly), and carefully once it's been folded, we lay it with care inside a basket full of other garments previously ironed and folded...I wanted TO SCREEEEEAM!!!! Let me out of here!! what do I care about these miserable people's problems!! Stupid people, stupid problems, the dialogs are moronic, so are the actors (probably the director's fault). Although..., maybe now that I think about it..., maybe THERE WAS NOT a director..., that's it! for a movie to be this bad, there was not a director!! Almodovar, Dear Almodovar...Where are you?? we need you, please!!