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Esta es la breve historia del breve reinado, el breve matrimonio y la breve vida de Luis I… el Breve. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de su nueva serie original, La vida breve, dirigida por Adolfo Valor y Diego Núñez, y creada y escrita por Cristóbal Garrido y Valor.

Se trata de una serie de época, llena de humor e irreverencia, que recrea los sorprendentes acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar durante el reinado más corto de la historia de España con el monarca más desconocido: Luis I, hijo de Felipe V. Permaneció en el trono 229 días, desde el 15 de enero de 1724 hasta su muerte el 31 de agosto de ese mismo año.

Como cualquier joven, Luis (Carlos Scholz) está a punto de experimentar grandes cambios. Le casan con una prima desconocida y va a heredar el trono de España. En pleno siglo Xviii esto sería un...

Descubre el regreso de la emblemática actriz y cantante en una historia de soledad y miedos. © Af Films

En diversas localizaciones del Puerto de la Cruz, en Tenerife, ha comenzado el rodaje de “Islas”, la última película de la directora y guionista argentina Marina Seresesky. Una película que explora diversos temas como la soledad, la memoria y el miedo.

“Islas” transcurre en el majestuoso y esplendoroso Hotel Paradise, un enorme alojamiento que vivió un pasado glorioso y opulento… Ahora, decadente y anticuado, y del que ya solo queda el recuerdo… Mientras sus escasos empleados y clientes conviven envueltos por una apatía y desengaño profundos, el pasado y el futuro de sus dos protagonistas se funde en esa realidad alternativa que ofrece el todo incluido del Hotel Paradise.

La película supone el gran regreso al cine de la actriz y cantante Ana Belén. El actor Manu Vega (“Lobo Feroz”) coprotagoniza la película.

Descúbrelo todo sobre el nuevo thriller español de Disney Plus+. © Disney+

Ya está disponible el tráiler oficial de la serie original de Disney+ “Las Largas Sombras”, un poderoso thriller femenino de 6 episodios que reflexiona sobre el peso de la culpa y cómo evoluciona la amistad de un grupo de amigas con el paso de los años. La serie, que cuenta con un equipo íntegramente femenino delante y detrás de las cámaras, es la historia de un grupo de mujeres cuyas estables vidas de éxito se ven repentinamente sacudidas por la aparición de los restos mortales de una de sus compañeras de instituto, desaparecida durante el viaje de fin de curso a Mallorca veinticinco años antes. Y es que, de primeras la serie nos recuerda algo a “Big Little Lies”, una serie muy aclamada y que ha sido una de las claras referencias de la cineasta a la hora de crear este intrigante thriller.

Sophisticated chatter about the purpose of artistic expression ushers in Salvador Simó’s “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles,” a genius and layered animated drama that functions as both a revelatory making-of for a seminal 1933 non-fiction film, and a surrealist biopic about the director behind it, who’s tormented by a yearning for his stern father’s approval.

Simó and co-writer Eligio R. Montero find Luis Buñuel (voiced by Jorge Usón), the expat Spanish auteur whose best-known films were made in France and Mexico, fresh off the success and controversy of the groundbreaking “Un Chien Andalou” and “L’Age d’Or,” both of which he co-wrote with the equally iconoclastic Salvador Dalí. Already regarded as a provocateur critical of the Catholic Church, Buñuel was branded persona non grata at home, which hindered his efforts to get another movie financed.

Asymmetrical in its facial features, the 2D animated rendering of...

It’s a truth so universally acknowledged that it seldom bears repeating: America sees animation as a genre, while the rest of the world recognizes it as an art form unto itself. Here, it’s just for kids, and most of the movies that Hollywood makes with it are about ice princesses or angry birds or plastic sporks gripped by existential crises. Beyond our borders, however, animation can be for anyone, and tell stories about anything. One look at something from Studio Ghibli or Cartoon Saloon is enough to appreciate how much we lose by treating “cartoons” as a lesser form of cinema that chiefly exists to placate young children; a massive animation department wasting its talents on the likes of “Wonder Park” is like someone buying a Ferrari just to drive around a golf course.

But, every once in a while, a foreign director makes a work of feature-length...

Before surrealist legend Luis Buñuel found himself directing multiple films a year during the 1950s on the way to creating French classics like Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in the 60s and 70s respectively, he became a persona non grata when it came to European benefactors thanks to his feature debut L’Age d’Or labeling him a heretic and almost getting his producer excommunicated by the Pope. With Salvador Dali at his side, the Un Chien Andalou filmmaker was dismissed as a provocateur nobody was willing to risk ruining their reputation over if he continued driving his own into the ground. Buñuel’s only chance of getting something new off the ground was his avant-garde artist friend Ramón Acín serendipitously winning the lottery.

It doesn’t get more surreal than a drunken night on the town lamenting his poor luck with someone who’d...

"Death is hiding at every corner, but it won't come out if we don't force it." GKids has unveiled a second official Us trailer for a peculiar animated drama from Spain called Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (or Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas), made by filmmaker Salvador Simó (of Paddle Pop Adventures 2: Journey Into the Kingdom). Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the true story of how Buñuel made his second movie. Set in Paris in the 1930s, Buñuel's sculptor Ramón Acin friend buys a lottery ticket with the promise that, if he wins, he will pay for his next film. Remarkably, he ends up a winner, and the two set off to make the short doc Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (aka Land Without Bread). Featuring the voices of Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás, and Cyril Corral. This definitely...

Even in the endlessly eccentric annals of independent animation — where the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” took flight and Ralph Bakshi tripped out amid jive-talking rabbits and X-rated cats — “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” is an oddity: a feature-length cartoon about the making of a 27-minute documentary. Frankly, it was a brilliant choice on the part of director Salvador Simo to use such an expressionistic medium to examine how surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel bent reality to his own ends in the making of 1933 documentary “Las Hurdes” (aka “Land Without Bread”).

Of course, animation later proved fertile ground for Buñuel’s friend — and fellow surrealist — Salvador Dalí (who designed “Destino” for Disney), seeing as the hand-drawn form is uniquely suited to what André Breton described as the surrealists’ aim: “to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” As many have observed about the medium,...