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Perdiendo el este (2019)

If I was an agent I'd use this movie as a videobook for my representees

The screenplay is unvelievable, specially in 2019. The fish out of the water plot worked better in "Bienvenue au Nord" for instance, and Weir's Green Card nailed it with the same plot. BUT the actors are so funny that many times during the movie the audience laughed with bad jokes. Also with the good one. And that is an archievement.

Felipe y Letizia (2010)

Best TV movie ever

It's cheesy, okay but... did Oristrell even had a choice? Anyhow I enjoy (present: I've sen it several times) every minute of it. A love story no one has ever believed. Characters you've known since forever but whose personality you can only glimpse. Come on, it's the best possible tv movie. i am not being Condescent. In fact, you caj recall a previous Oristrell movie: an ambitious woman gets a seat next to the Prince at the end. This woman is Letizia in real life. And Puigcorbe appears in both movies. Forget about Jessica Mc Clure. Along with "Mi gitana", best tv movie in History.

La hora chanante (2002)

The best show in Spain ever!

Some people like "Lo peor de la semana", "Vaya semanita" or even "CQC" (shame on them!) better, but this one definitively rocks! A bunch of weirdos performing sketches in a harrowing Spanish redneck's accent, with this famous section called "Testimony" where several celebrities of the eighties speak nonsense about their lives and careers. Some of them had been: Pat Morita, Vanilla Ice, Nacho Duato, Michael Jackson, Hugh Hefner, David Hasselhof or Mr. T.

This is aired in a channel that not everybody gets (Paramount Comedy) but is,still, a, increasing phenomenon. People download it from the Internet and start talking as in the show.

The sketches are the best I've seen in the Spanish TV and you never get tired of watching them again and again. Also the small cartoons are memorable, like "Dr.Reindeer and Mr.Head" (a talking reindeer and a jelly jabbering)or "Súper Ñoño" ( a boy lying in bed who is supposed to have super powers).

Maybe it is not as fun if you don't get the strange vocabulary they are using, with all those atavic words, but just for being so original deserves an opportunity. Then you'll love it!

Inconscientes (2004)

Fun, catchy, beautiful

I've just seen "Unconscious" on DVD. Wonderful! I picked it up at the video store just by chance, and I am gratefully surprised. The look is awesome and the story catches you up to the end. The modernist settings in Barcelona are so beautiful, and so the movie has an original look.

The sound, though, was not very good. In part because of the actors (many of them, the young ones, don't vocalize and it gets hard to understand their speeches) or maybe t'was the copy. Don't know.

The only thing I dind't like was the obvious and tiring sex references during all the movie. It's supposed to be 1913, I don't think people would talk about this stuff so naturally in those days in Spain.

Anyhow, very good story, funny gags, a nice look, and suggestive music. Eigth out of ten, to me.

The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

Deligthful movie for the young ones (and the grown-ups too!)

I saw it years ago, before BETA system was erased from the earth, and I still sing the songs from time to time. It is like a weird cross between Mary Poppins, Herbie and fragile rock. It was really amusing and as I said, with some catchy songs. Maybe the special effects are a little bit old-fashioned, but I am sure it is now as charming as it was then. I remember, maybe, the good being too god and the bad guys being too bad but, after all, it's supposed to be for kids!

It's also one of those real image movies from Disney, a little bit forgotten, I don't know why. When home video was striking the world, many titles as this one were released, and now with the DVD explosion, some interesting movies, just like this one, seems to be passed by. I think this is much better than "lizzie McGuire" and all that "princess Disney" stuff and things like that. At least, a movie like "the gnome-Mobile", does say something, not just "hey! be cool and buy clothes" when you read between the lines.

• Jimina Sabadú

Ocaña, retrat intermitent (1978)

Life-exploding documentary

This is a highly recommendable documentary about Ocaña, a sevillan painter living in Barcelona. This may not be interesting by itself (how many painters are in the world?) but the ferocity, sincerity, bright and sensibility of Ocaña talking either about his childhood, his art or life itself makes this movie a shocking exposure of a bizarre, colonist Barcelona rigth after Franco's death. It's an explosion of both life and light, a celebration of joy and, somehow, an spiritual striptease of a soul willing to survive a world of mediocrity, all in a voyeur style, avoiding prejudices and letting the character speak by himself. This was the very first movie by Ventura Pons, who was 21 at the time. That makes you thing about his huge talent!

I recommend it to everyone!

The Flight of Dragons (1982)

Perfect, maybe

I've seen this film so many times that I can follow the dialogs in my mind. The first time was when it appeared on video ( 1983 or so in my country, I guess) and now that I am a little bit older, i't s still one of my faves and my favourite cartoon ever. That means (bored yet?) that if you enjoyed it as a kid, it's nothing compared with the impressions that make on you when you're a grown-up.

It's really an unique film combining fantasy, romance, adventure, and a great animation. Also, it has a quite original script that you can't find in any Disney-like movie ( yet, I love Disney). The characters present a duality (except for Omadon, who is, after all, an allegory of Evil itself) hard to see in cartoons, the dragons are the most beautiful creatures ever, the backgrounds are a piece of art by themselves, and the music is much more than a simply o.s.t. composed to follow the rhythm of the scenes. And then you have that lovable lyrics from Don McLean at the very beginning.

I think is much better than "The last unicorn" or "Lord of the rings", because this one really catches you.

I've just found the book ( like in Carolinu's library, when Peter goes there to see the novels that hasn't been written yet! that was charming!) in a store and am willing to read it. I didn't know it existed!

So, go and get "The flight of the dragons", and you won't regret! :D

-Jimina Sabadú