Laia Costa (Amaia) and daughter Jone; Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
Written by
Jude Bautista
Laia Costa (Amaia’s) rage had built up weeks before Mikel Bustamante (Javi) got back ‘home’. She couldn’t bottle it up anymore. Amaia: Why don’t we just separate? You’re always away. You visit two, three days and leave. It’s as if we’re already separated. Javi: We are not separated… I just don’t understand. Amaia: Why not? Javi: Because I want you. Because I love you. Amaia: Why is it so easy for you to just say it? I love you. Boom. As if that would solve absolutely everything!
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Javi: Saying ‘I love you’ is a problem? Amaia: You say it like it means nothing. Saying ‘I love you’ and meaning it is really hard. Javi: I don’t find it hard because I really do love you, really. Do you understand? Amaia: I don’t know.
Mikel Bustamante (Javi) and Laia Costa (Amaia); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
Javi: Well, that’s too bad, because I do love you. I love you very much. Amaia: Well, my family loves me and finds it hard to say so. Javi: Yes, everything’s an effort for your family!
Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Pelicula at Shang Plaza
This year’s edition of Pelicula has a tie up between Instituto Cervantes Manila and the Haribon Foundation. Where viewers can choose among several environmentally themed titles: As bestas (THE BEASTS) which recently won the TIFF Grand Prix as well as Best Director and Actor, Tambien la Lluvia (EVEN THE RAIN) starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Fonos, El Olivo (The Olive Tree), Alcaras and Tiera (Earth). Instituto Cervantes will plant one tree for each viewer of these titles.
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A tribute to Carlos Saura ,‘One of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema’ is also part of the fest: Goya En Burdeos – a biopic of Spain’s greatest artist mixed with surrealism as only Saura can make and El rey de todo el mundo – combines theater, music, dance and fantasy that is the visual signature of Saura.
Watch 27 Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
Awards
Cinco Lobitos, English title: Lullaby, swept nearly all the Best Actress (Laia Costa), Supporting Actress (Susi Sanchez) and screenplay (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa) categories: Goya Awards, Malaga Film fest, Forqué awards, Feroz, along with Best New Director (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa) at Goya.
Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
This is the debut feature for writer, director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. Who was shocked at the enormous reception for her first film.
What makes it so powerful is how realistic and relatable the story is. And still somehow captures the simple joys of family life. Susi Sanchez plays Amaia’s mother Begoña, who said, ‘At times you’re happy and don’t know it.”
From left: Laia Costa (Amaia) and Susi Sanchez (Begoña); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Postpartum depression?
Amaia is a first time mom who may be suffering from post-partum depression. From the opening scene she was in tears and every other scene thereafter. Her mother Susi Sanchez (Begoña) asks her once how she was and never addressed it again. No one else even notices.
Laia Costa (Amaia); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
It gets worse when her partner Javi gets a lucrative assignment which takes him out of town for weeks on end. Javi works as a lighting designer which her parents mistake as an electrician.
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The crises in her life creeps up on her, all at the same time. She had to take leave of a writing job, that she loves. She tried the ‘work from home’ thing until her baby Jone accidentally rolls off the sofa.
From left: Susi Sanchez (Begoña) and Laia Costa (Amaia); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023. (11)
Thank God, there was hardly a scratch on Jone. But enough for her to concede she needed help and had her running off to her parents’ home, North of Spain (Basque Country). That’s when other crises arise, learning the past of her parents’ relationship. And doubting her own relationship and her confidence as a new mother. She’s not married to Javi, as her mother would occasionally point out.
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Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Writer, Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa captured the feeling of the walls closing in on new parents. The stresses and challenges of what is obviously a changing phase in their lives. Naturally this is also the same period Amaia finds out her own parents are not superhuman. They’re just as conflicted and emotionally irrational as first time parents. Alauda has turned something personal, singular into something universal. The sincerity and truthfulness in her work shines through.
Writer/ Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa at the Cine Dore festival.
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No less than Pedro Almodovar calls it, “undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years,” Almodóvar announced in a statement, describing the mother-daughter relationship drama as “a portrait of the role of women within the family, which is truthful, devoid of sentimentality and that does not exclude humor.” From Variety.com: Pedro Almodovar Endorses Alauda Ruiz De Azua’s ‘Lullaby’: ‘It’s the Best Spanish Debut For Years’
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Cinco Lobitos is also among the top grossing films of Spain, as well as being a critical success. And winning Alauda the Best New Director award from Goya.
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Laia Costa
Laia Costa’s performance has earned her the not just the Best actress nod from Goya but almost all award giving bodies: Malaga Film fest, Forqué awards, Feroz. Although, this isn’t her first recognition. She won Best Actress for Victoria (2015) at the German Film Awards.
Laia Costa (Amaia); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
Laia was able to do something extremely difficult. To appear vulnerable, as I said sobbing in a lot of scenes, and yet confront her problems head on. There’s an inner strength in her too, that you can see and feel. She may have gotten her inner strength from her real life mom, Cristina Bertrán, who happens to be one of Barcelona’s first female taxi drivers. Her dad José María Costa was an accountant and manager of the Niza dance hall. From: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Laia_Costa
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This year, fans are anticipating the release of UN AMOR this November in Spain. Written and directed by Isabel Coixet, and based on the novel of the same name. Laia plays Nat a freelance translator who has an unusual romance with a rough repairman in Andreas, known in town as ‘The German’.
From left: Susi Sanchez (Begoña) and Laia Costa (Amaia); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Basque Country
The early scenes were in the couple’s apartment in Madrid. But then moved to Basque Country, where Amaia’s parents live. While this is a drama, the shots were mostly close ups of the cast. You still couldn’t help but fall for the charming coastal region in Northern Spain. As much as director Alauda wanted to deemphasize it.
Laia Costa (Amaia) and daughter Jone in Madrid; Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
There were two towns: Bakio and Mundaka that featured prominently. Bakio mostly for the spectacular beaches. Mundaka for the fish market and nearby park, the family frequented. Although in the film it seemed like all one place. Along with the smaller city of Bilbao, also in Basque Country.
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Even when Amaia’s father Koldo complains about her mother’s cooking, you can’t help but wonder how their recipe for chickpeas taste. Or the flavor of sardines and other fish varieties they clean and cook.
Ramón Barea (Koldo); Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Laia Costa (Amaia) and daughter Jone; Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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From left: Laia Costa (Amaia), Jone and Mikel Bustamante (Javi). Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Mikel Bustamante (Javi), Laia Costa (Amaia) and daughter Jone; Watch the humorous and heart rending drama Cinco Lobitos (LULLABY) and 26 other Spanish films for free at the Pelicula Spanish Film festival, RED CARPET CINEMAS, Shang Rila Plaza Mall from October 5-15, 2023.
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Text and Photos by Jude Bautista