Programme Alcine54

Asunción and Mari Carmen are two young women who are willing to be part of the “Sección Femenina”, but The Beatles’ visit to Spain will change their plans.

Today is the premiere day, and Artur, son of a bourgeois family and dancer in a contemporary dance company, acts like the prince in a kingdom tailored to his own image. Everything changes when his father is arrested for corruption in a real estate scandal.

It's Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.

In 1819, an exhausted Francisco de Goya retires to “La Quinta del Sordo” to spend his final days away from public life and focused on his work. Unfortunately, in the deep solitude of that modest country house, the painter falls seriously ill. Closer to death than ever before, Francisco de Goya is visited by the ghosts of his past. Tormented by these visits and with his health rapidly declining, Goya paints the Black Paintings on the walls of his home as a last resort to drive the ghosts out of his life—losing almost everything in the process, including his sanity and nearly his life.

Arrebato (1980) is today the ultimate cult film of Spanish cinema, and Iván Zulueta, its director, a cursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that anticipated the end of La Movida, a dark and raw movie whose story and meta-narrative are intimately connected. The film serves as a premonition of the filmmaker’s own life. Like its protagonists, Zulueta would ultimately be consumed by drugs and cinema, and, like them, would also vanish.