Spagnola, La details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Lourdes Bartolome, Alice Ansara, Lola Marceli |
| Director: | Steve Jacobs |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Name | Discs | |
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Spagnola, La |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 24 Mar 2003 |
| Main languages: | English, Spanish, Italian |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Shot in what looks ...
By a customer from HEMEL HEMPSTEAD , 22 Oct 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Shot in what looks like the back end of Botany Bay - and folks that surely aint attractive - this is a coming of age movie. Daughter loves Dad. Dad loves another. Mum's a Bitch (La Spagnola). Daughter loves Dad. Mother's takin' pills. Daughter loves Dad. Dad's a bastard. Where's it all going to end? This film is strong on characterisation and settiing (1960s Australia). La Spagnola is excellent - she dominates every scene she is in and appears to be a woman ready for living in 2004 but trapped in the 1960s. One minute you're sympathetic to her plight, the next you want Lucia, our story teller and her daughter, to up an leave her mother and cut it on her own. It is a film which keeps you wanting to know how they come to terms with one another. Watch out! There is a fantastic 5 minutes piece of comedy in middle of the film, when everyone's favourite aunt decides, having just killed the goat, that vegetables give her greater satisfaction. A kitchen scene that Delia could never repeat on BBC1 that is for sure. This is a film that gives us an insight into 1960s Australia from an outsiders point of view - Spanish, Italian, tennage, female. I loved it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)Wonderful stuff
By H. D from Salisbury , 26 Apr 2008A bawdy romp with characters living life to the full in difficult circumstances.Some very crude but very amusing scenes(the courgette etc.)You had to laugh even tho' it was so rude.I loved La Spagnola;what a gorgeous face she has and poor daughtr(very plain) grew on me.As for the blokes.Well.....pathetic,mostly! A good evening's entertainment.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Watch this one if you want to get away from Hollywood!!
By JenGorgi from Worthing, England , 05 Nov 2005I have always loved this movie. It's so re-freshing and different. Great and unusual genre in terms of showing foreigners in Oz.Their lifes, their problems, their achievements. Fairly unknown international cast but very good acting and story-line. Watch this one if you want to get away from Hollywood!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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latin confusion and strife
By Oonagh from London , 05 Jul 2005A beautiful, moving slightly off-the wall film.
Hilarious scenes of emotional meltdown migle with moments of supreme comic irony against a backdrop of well visited cinematic themes; isolation, immigration and futile aspirations.
Beautifully scripted, acted and photographed.
Rent it!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Disjointed
By a customer from North Staffordshire , 13 Apr 2005Some good ideas but they seem to want to be in different films. An Australian film trying to be European and ending up at the bottom of the sea.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Bella Bella Spagnola!!
By Pete Shuttleworth from Hemel Hempstead, Herts. , 16 Nov 2004The story of an Spanish wife, to an Italian no-good husband, set in 1960s Australia. At the heart of the film is a tremendous performance by mother and daughter and a film stealing scene by the 'friendly aunt'. This film was fierce and funny and made me think that La Spagnola was much more suited to today than the 1960s she railed against. The 60s period setting is creditable and the 'fly on the wall' nature of what we watch allows us to empathise deeply with Lucia, the daughter, and her plight. I wouldn't have eaten her Aunty's meal either! Mind you - would anyone else if they saw what we do during the cooking? This is a good and unusual film. I enjoyed it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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