Comedy about a marriage guidance counsellor whose own marriage is on the rocks.
This film is inspired by a 14th-century Mester de Clerecía work. In medieval Spain. Manolo is the protagonist of the story, playing Juan Ruíz (a renowned poet), who continues his fight for good love. Protected from bathhouse owner Zubeida, he composes his verses and recites them to the people. By some of them he has differences with the religious authority and is imprisoned. An...
On the heels of his award-winning Cria cuevos (Raise Ravens), Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura dashed off the muted psychological drama Elisa, My Love. Geraldine Chaplin stars as Elisa, who after an absence of 20 years is reunited with her father, Fernando Rey (in a superb performance, which won him the Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" prize ). Having just divested herself of an...
