Fire Will Come Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Fire Will Come, 1.55am, Film4, July 18
Oliver Laxe's slowbuild Glacian-set drama may be quite light on plotting but it crackles with emotion. The film is largely constructed of shared moments between Amador (Amador Arias) - an arsonist who is newly released from prison - and his elderly mother Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez). Almost everything here feels ambivalent - Amador's relationship with the local townsfolk and the natural environment, not to mention the effect that vet Elena (Elena Mar Fernández) may have on his life. The nature of humanity, as a power for construction or destruction is considered as we wait for that fire to come. Read our full review.
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Oliver Laxe's slowbuild Glacian-set drama may be quite light on plotting but it crackles with emotion. The film is largely constructed of shared moments between Amador (Amador Arias) - an arsonist who is newly released from prison - and his elderly mother Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez). Almost everything here feels ambivalent - Amador's relationship with the local townsfolk and the natural environment, not to mention the effect that vet Elena (Elena Mar Fernández) may have on his life. The nature of humanity, as a power for construction or destruction is considered as we wait for that fire to come. Read our full review.
Gravity, 8.35pm, BBC1, Tuesday, July 13
Although the big screen is best for Alfonso Cuarón's spectacularly shot space drama, the small screen adds something to the intensity of Sandra Bullock's central performance as Dr Ryan Stone,...
- 7/12/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oliver Laxe’s brilliant Fire Will Come (currently streaming online in virtual cinemas) opens with an unease that lingers long after the images that inspired it — crowded, quiet, as natural as they are unearthly — have passed us by. A sublime harbinger of the subtle violences to come. Without preface or warning, we’re in a thick forest spooked with fog and unknowing. The camera moves slowly and reveals little at first but the terrain, tracking along the forest floor, then hovering eerily through and above it all, soaking up the...
- 10/30/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Somewhere between a bucolic documentary and a Bressonian character study, Oliver Laxe’s terse but open-souled “Fire Will Come” begins with a prologue that anticipates the coiled grace of the film that follows. Bulldozers plow down the dark hills of Galicia — the autonomous region of Spain where Laxe’s family comes from, and where the French-born director spent his childhood summers — their headlights shimmering through the midnight darkness so that the forest of doomed eucalyptus trees appears to be underwater. The ethereal sequence builds to a standstill when one of the bulldozers stops at the base of a trunk that it can’t bear to knock down, the machine seemingly awed by the size or self-assurance of what’s blocking its path. We tend to accept nature as we see it before us, even when it stands in our way; even when it threatens us. We don’t tend to extend people the same courtesy.
- 10/29/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) Kimstim Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Oliver Laxe Screenwriter: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe Cast: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao, Elena Mar Fernández, David de Poso, Alvaro de Bazal, Damián Prado Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/5/20 Opens: May 8, 2020 […]
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- 8/4/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Pedro Almodóvar calls for “protection” of independent cinema in Spain.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory was the big winner at the Spanish Film Academy Awards in Málaga on Saturday night (25) with seven Goyas including best film, best director and best actor for Antonio Banderas.
With 17 and 16 nominations respectively, Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War and Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory started the night as the two favourites and the race looked close until almost the end, when Antonio Banderas went onstage to collect the Goya for best actor.
A moved Banderas – who had already seen his work recognised with...
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory was the big winner at the Spanish Film Academy Awards in Málaga on Saturday night (25) with seven Goyas including best film, best director and best actor for Antonio Banderas.
With 17 and 16 nominations respectively, Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War and Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory started the night as the two favourites and the race looked close until almost the end, when Antonio Banderas went onstage to collect the Goya for best actor.
A moved Banderas – who had already seen his work recognised with...
- 1/26/2020
- by 1100969¦Elisabet Cabeza¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Pedro Almodóvar calls for “protection” of independent cinema in Spain.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory was the big winner at the Spanish Film Academy Awards in Málaga on Saturday night (25) with seven Goyas including best film, best director and best actor for Antonio Banderas.
With 17 and 16 nominations respectively, Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War and Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory started the night as the two favourites and the race looked close until almost the end, when Antonio Banderas went onstage to collect the Goya for best actor.
A moved Banderas – who had already seen his work recognised with...
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory was the big winner at the Spanish Film Academy Awards in Málaga on Saturday night (25) with seven Goyas including best film, best director and best actor for Antonio Banderas.
With 17 and 16 nominations respectively, Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War and Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory started the night as the two favourites and the race looked close until almost the end, when Antonio Banderas went onstage to collect the Goya for best actor.
A moved Banderas – who had already seen his work recognised with...
- 1/26/2020
- by 1100969¦Elisabet Cabeza¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” took home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Antonio Banderas) and Best Original Screenplay at the 34th Spanish Academy Goya Awards, as well as Best Editing, Original Music and Supporting Actress (Julieta Serrano).
Almodóvar’s night did have one blemish, however. On the red carpet ahead of the ceremony he accidentally let slip that actress Penelope Cruz will be handing out this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, as she and Banderas did last time Almodóvar won, with 2000’s “All About my Mother.”
Saturday night’s ceremony ran like a marathon, with Almodóvar and Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” exchanging the lead back and forth over the 3.5 hour ceremony before “Pain and Glory” took the ceremony’s final three prizes, ending with seven awards while Amenábar’s Spanish Civil War epic notched five.
In his first on-stage appearance of the night,...
Almodóvar’s night did have one blemish, however. On the red carpet ahead of the ceremony he accidentally let slip that actress Penelope Cruz will be handing out this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, as she and Banderas did last time Almodóvar won, with 2000’s “All About my Mother.”
Saturday night’s ceremony ran like a marathon, with Almodóvar and Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” exchanging the lead back and forth over the 3.5 hour ceremony before “Pain and Glory” took the ceremony’s final three prizes, ending with seven awards while Amenábar’s Spanish Civil War epic notched five.
In his first on-stage appearance of the night,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Jamie Lang and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Other nominees include ‘Intemperie’, ’The Endless Trench’ and ’Fire Will Come’.
Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War leads the nominations for Spain’s 34th Goya Academy Awards but will face-off against Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory at the ceremony on January 25 in Malaga.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Amenábar’s Spanish Civil War drama has secured 17 nominations while Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical film has 16 nods.
While At War has proved a box office hit following its debut at Toronto, ranking as Spain’s third highest-grossing domestic film of 2019 and taking more than $11.3m to date.
Pain and Glory...
Alejandro Amenábar’s While At War leads the nominations for Spain’s 34th Goya Academy Awards but will face-off against Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory at the ceremony on January 25 in Malaga.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Amenábar’s Spanish Civil War drama has secured 17 nominations while Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical film has 16 nods.
While At War has proved a box office hit following its debut at Toronto, ranking as Spain’s third highest-grossing domestic film of 2019 and taking more than $11.3m to date.
Pain and Glory...
- 12/2/2019
- by 1101324¦Elisabet Cabeza¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Quickly establishing themselves as one of the premier indie and foreign distributors, KimStim has released some of the year’s best films, including An Elephant Sitting Still, Too Late to Die Young, and The Plagiarists. We’re now pleased to exclusively announce they’ve acquired all U.S. rights to another festival favorite this year, Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come.
The director’s follow up to his Cannes prize-winner Mimosas is a hypnotic, slow-burn drama about life in a rural village threatened with extinction in the ruggedly beautiful Galician mountains. Set for a theatrical release, followed by a digital release, in mid-2020, Ian Stimler of the Brooklyn-based KimStim negotiated the deal with Agathe Mauruc of the Parisian film sales company Pyramide International.
A jury prize winner at Cannes this year, Ed Frankl said in our review from the festival, “Laxe knows how to create a grounded, taut drama with...
The director’s follow up to his Cannes prize-winner Mimosas is a hypnotic, slow-burn drama about life in a rural village threatened with extinction in the ruggedly beautiful Galician mountains. Set for a theatrical release, followed by a digital release, in mid-2020, Ian Stimler of the Brooklyn-based KimStim negotiated the deal with Agathe Mauruc of the Parisian film sales company Pyramide International.
A jury prize winner at Cannes this year, Ed Frankl said in our review from the festival, “Laxe knows how to create a grounded, taut drama with...
- 11/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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