Cinema for 3.5 euros: 10 recommended films for the Cinema Festival

BarcelonaThe Cinema Festival is back, an initiative by film exhibitors and distributors to encourage moviegoing in theaters. From Monday, November 3rd to Wednesday, November 5th, participating cinemas – most of them across Spain – will offer tickets for €3.50. It's no longer necessary to print a voucher to enjoy the reduced price; simply go to the cinema and buy your ticket. The terms and conditions of the promotion and the list of participating cinemas can be found on the website. Film FestivalWe chose ten movies currently showing:

Wearing a bathrobe and smoking marijuana while nursing a massive hangover, Bob Ferguson, the deranged activist played by Leonardo DiCaprio, learns he must flee because the deranged military man with whom he shares an unexpected love triangle is after his boss and his teenage daughter's boss. One battle after another It is the latest masterpiece of American cinema and of one of its great masters, Paul Thomas Anderson. Read the full review here..

The mastermind, which has just won the award for best film at the Seminci Film Festival in Valladolid, transports us to the turbulent United States of the early seventies, newly awakened from the utopian dream of the sixties. In a small town, JB Mooney (an excellent Josh O'Connor who changes the wrinkled white suit of The chimera (wearing worn-out wool sweaters), a failed art student, family man and unemployed carpenter, organizes what he imagines as a perfect heist: the theft of some works of art from a local museum. Read the full review here..

In the films of Jaume Claret Muxart there is unease and trembling, but above all a plastic intensity that can be appreciated in the images shot on 16mm film.Strange river, hedebut work by that young director (26 years old). Premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival and presented at the last San Sebastián Film Festival, where Claret Muxart studied film at Zine Eskola Elías Querejeta, the film is born from the director's observations during the trips he made with his family following the course of rivers in Central Europe by bicycle. Read the full article here..

Active member of the Iranian Green Revolution, since 2009 Jafar Panahi has been the victim of various arrests, imprisonments, and house arrests. by the government of his country. A simple accident At first glance, it represents a return to a certain normality. The winner of the Palme d'Or at CannesThe film, which is a smash hit at the French box office, was shot under less restrictive circumstances and, in terms of narrative, is one of the most accessible works by the Iranian director. Read the full review here..

Italian Luca Guadagnino, director of Call me by your name, has described Witch hunt as one thriller Morality. A speculative fiction exercise built upon a disturbing enigma: what happened between a Yale University philosophy professor (Andrew Garfield, temperamental) and an African American student (Ayo Edebiri, chameleon-like) from a good family and the partner of a trans person? Was it a consensual encounter or sexual assault? Read the full review here..

It is curious that Rosalía's possible shift towards spirituality coincides with the premiere of Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's third and remarkable album (Five little wolves), winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastián. Ainara, a teenager (Blanca Soroa, a true revelation), tells her well-to-do family that she wants to become a cloistered nun. Nerves flare and positions clash: on one side is the widowed father, unable to take care of his three daughters; on the other, the aunt (Patricia López Arnaiz, a whirlwind). Read the full review here..

In the movies of the Dardenne brothers You go in with a strong heart and come out with a broken one. That's how it's always been, and that's how it still is. It's true that in Newborns There are no surprises or innovations. But, in other hands, this film, which follows the lives of five teenagers at risk of social exclusion living in a shelter for young mothers in Liège, would be a cataclysm. Read the full review here..

In The tigers, The siblings portrayed by Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie are divers who urgently repair (because, as they say, time is money) the oil tankers that stop in the port of Huelva. This risky profession takes a toll on the protagonists' mental and physical health, and at a certain point, they are forced to make a bad decision to get out of the well. Alberto Rodríguez describes their circumstances with precision, avoiding justifications and judgments. Read the full review here..

Chuck's Life It is divided into three acts. Each one is of a different genre: an apocalyptic tale, a musical anecdote, and a coming-of-age story. Furthermore, this film, which adapts a book by Stephen King at his most gentle and humanistic (the one by Count on me. either The Green MileIt begins at the end: from the character's death back to his childhood. And Mike Flanagan, an author accustomed to horror, makes his debut in a sentimental and imaginative fantasy style. Read the full review here..

In The ugly stepsisterA reinterpretation of the Cinderella story from the perspective of the ugly stepsister, which triumphed at the latest Sitges Film Festival, tells the story of Elvira, who must compete with her beautiful stepsister to win the prince's heart—the only solution in sight to the family's financial problems. Aware of the disadvantage the girl faces, her mother takes her to a cosmetic surgeon who employs drastic methods that Elvira accepts without resistance, a victim of the pressure to conform to beauty standards that has convinced her of her ugliness. Read the full article here..