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WINTER'S BONE (2010 - EUA) Zebra Granik

Genre: drama/thriller

Synopsis: This film is about a younger who is seventeen years old that she has to look after her family which they live in uncertain situation in a rural area. She has to take care of his little brothers and his mother who is sick. His father has gone away while he was in conditional freedom after being on the prison. For this reason, she has to search his father in order to maintain the house.

Opinion: I have seen the film and I can say that the story fascinates me; maybe for the character's characterization. This is amazing and probably the thing which makes the film to stands out from another films. The director defines them like sad and not so much sociable people. They are the product of a lonely and isolated surrounding. From another poing of view, it was the first film which I could see Jennifer Lawrence performing. She is the main character and she carries out an authentic and brilliant interpretation. The film achieves putting you on tension all the time because you are suffering for the familiy's safety. Anyone wants to help the younger and this pushes her to do anything in order to achieve her objective: find her father. Finally, all the film develops on cold and distressing atmosphere and this reaffirms the cruel story and the difficult situation which has to face the younger.

LOPE (2010 - Spain) Andrucha Waddington

Genre: romance

Synopsis: This film is the biography about the famous writer Lope de Vega (1562-1635). The film explains a passionate and difficult love story from the poetry with two women. One of the women could help him with his professional career and the other represents the true love. Which woman will choose?

Opinion: I don’t tend to see Spanish films but I saw this film and I liked it. It is a very realistic film because it reconstructs the biography of Lope de Vega but without an historic punt of view. Well, the film is set in a historic atmosphere but the film doesn’t rebuild exactly his whole life, only a part. The Lope’s life was very intense and passionate; he had a lot of lovers and wrote loads of comedies and poems probably during the night or whenever the inspiration comes to him. While you are enjoying a fantastic love story, you can make and idea of how was his personality and how was the theatre life on that period. Moreover, on the film there are some pieces of Lope’s poems.