{"id":71414,"date":"2016-07-08T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=71414"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:27:48","slug":"spanish-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Spanish films you must watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Spain<\/strong> embraced the medium of <strong>cinema<\/strong> and through the many political and international cultural events that took place in the 20th century we saw this medium becoming a strong channel for the exploration of the Spanish spirit. If you haven\u2019t seen these <strong>films<\/strong> than stay in tonight and press the play button.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/#Abre_los_Ojos_Open_Your_Eyes\" title=\"Abre los Ojos \/ Open Your Eyes\">Abre los Ojos \/ Open Your Eyes<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/#Todo_Sobre_Mi_Madre_All_About_My_Mother\" title=\"Todo Sobre Mi Madre \/ All About My Mother\">Todo Sobre Mi Madre \/ All About My Mother<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/#Mi_padre_es_Bjorn_Borg_My_Father_is_Bjorn_Borg\" title=\"Mi padre es Bj\u00f6rn Borg \/ My Father is Bj\u00f6rn Borg\">Mi padre es Bj\u00f6rn Borg \/ My Father is Bj\u00f6rn Borg<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/#El_Espiritu_de_la_Colmena_The_Spirit_of_the_Beehive\" title=\"El Esp\u00edritu de la Colmena \/The Spirit of the Beehive\">El Esp\u00edritu de la Colmena \/The Spirit of the Beehive<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/spanish-films\/#Hable_Con_EllaTalk_to_Her\" title=\"Hable Con Ella\/Talk to Her\">Hable Con Ella\/Talk to Her<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Abre_los_Ojos_Open_Your_Eyes\"><\/span>Abre los Ojos \/ Open Your Eyes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hollywood remake of this <strong>movie<\/strong> was &#8216;Vanilla Sky&#8217; with Tom Cruise as lead and Penelope Cruz reprising her original role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBtnPuB0x3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Open Your Eyes<\/a>. The original is a powerful and well told story of love and circumstance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71497\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71497\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/all-about-my-mother.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: IMDb\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: IMDb<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Todo_Sobre_Mi_Madre_All_About_My_Mother\"><\/span>Todo Sobre Mi Madre \/ All About My Mother<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tkUMC5Jw8MA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">All About My Mother<\/a> is an <strong>Oscar-winning<\/strong> <strong>masterpiece<\/strong> considered by many to be Pedro Almod\u00f3var&#8217;s greatest work. <strong>Almod\u00f3var<\/strong> hit international acclaim with Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which also propelled Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas into the international spotlight.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mi_padre_es_Bjorn_Borg_My_Father_is_Bjorn_Borg\"><\/span>Mi padre es Bj\u00f6rn Borg \/ My Father is Bj\u00f6rn Borg<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/bandeapart.org\/en_EN\/production\/short_films\/my-father-is-bjorn-borg\">This short film<\/span> has inspired the creation of a very cool <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> <strong>furniture<\/strong> <strong>shop<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopikon.com\/s\/barcelona\/el-recibidor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">El Recibidor<\/a>. So for those of you that have a love of the <strong>vintage<\/strong> see this movie and then visit the <strong>shop<\/strong>! And yes, the film is about tennis\u2026sort of.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"El_Espiritu_de_la_Colmena_The_Spirit_of_the_Beehive\"><\/span>El Esp\u00edritu de la Colmena \/The Spirit of the Beehive<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Set in 1940 in the Castillian countryside, the protagonist of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">this film<\/a> is a curios eight-year-old Ana, who after watching the <strong>film<\/strong> Frankenstein, becomes convinced there\u2019s a monster lurking in the abandoned houses of her village.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71499\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/talk-to-her.jpg\" alt=\"talk-to-her\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by IMDb<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hable_Con_EllaTalk_to_Her\"><\/span>Hable Con Ella\/Talk to Her<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iAdqAcfJvN8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">must-see film by Almod\u00f3var<\/a>, he won an <strong>Oscar<\/strong> for <strong>best<\/strong> <strong>original<\/strong> <strong>screenplay<\/strong> for \u2018Talk to Her\u2019. The scenes are juxtapositions of two seemingly unrelated subjects of bull fighting and dance. Both subjects of movement and collaboration with the players involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a touch of heaviness to the passion or tragic nature of the lives of some of the characters in the films above. Some are underpinned by a sadness of circumstance, very much accentuated for the purpose of storytelling. One thing you can say is they are all so very human. 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If you haven\u2019t seen these films than stay in tonight and press the play button. 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