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Like Satyajit Ray's APARAJITO or Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY, director Benito Zambrono's SOLAS is a quiet, realistic film that examines relationships between parents and children, the decline of traditional values, and urban anomie. While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother (Maria Galiana) stays with her .. Read more

Starring	Ana Fernandez, Maria Galiana, Juan Fernandez, Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
Director	Benito Zambrano
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Much lauded in Spain last year, Zambrano's film is a let-down. FernÃndez plays MarÃa, a hardboiled forty-nothing... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14
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- - 9
  - 0
  Brilliant movie - very...
  
  Brilliant movie - very uplifting - she brings light into everyone's life (including the doc who gets a baby suit for his wife). Will rent it again in the ... read more »
  
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  - DERBY
  - 18 Oct 2004 at 19:45
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- - 0
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  Surprisingly watchable
  
  Surprisingly watchable. Thought at the start it was going to be dull and depressing, but the charactacters and filming make it engaging. The Spanish was not ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 16 Apr 2012 at 10:50
- - 0
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  An anti-myth?
  
  Wonderful in its empathetic and somewhat subversive representation of old age as a space where moral courage coupled with values such as integrity and ... read more »
  
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- 1088245
- - oriental
  - 2 reviews
  - 03 Feb 2012 at 10:18
- - 0
  - 0
  Bleak -- but thought-provoking............
  
  Utterly bleak, exploring the depths of loneliness and isolation. Marriage, old age, unwanted pregnancy, domestic violence -- it is all here.
  
  It opens... read more »
  
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- - artmiller
  - 10 reviews
  - 24 Jan 2012 at 07:07
- - 2
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  A Must See
  
  Really moving film. The characters were believable and sympathetic.
  
  I was really convinced by the different stories that were going on and especially... read more »
  
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- - Jumoak
  - 12 reviews
  - 24 Nov 2011 at 13:23
- - 1
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  Solas - an unpolished pearl
  
  Quirky and original, this film offers a thoughtful and often humourous study of family - the ties that bind and hold us down and those bonds that may sustain us... read more »
  
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- - LilySavage
  - 2 reviews
  - Durham
  - 10 Sep 2010 at 14:41
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  Very good
  
  Although a bit depressing,it makes you think about the way you perceive people and how lonely life can really be.great film-def worth it.
  
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- - Poppie
  - 34 reviews
  - Putney
  - 20 Aug 2010 at 21:58
- - 1
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  Solas - Human Conditions
  
  This type of film is beautifully crafted. It evokes all kinds of disharmonious feelings. The characters are complex and also very individually typically human... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 27 Mar 2010 at 19:53
- - 0
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  Very powerful...
  
  Love it when a film touches you
  
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- 837914
- - a customer
  - London
  - 07 Dec 2009 at 17:51
- - 0
  - 0
  Wonderful
  
  A beautifully made film. Heartfelt, moving, warm, hopeful and life affirming.
  
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- - bigybooy
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 30 Oct 2009 at 06:16
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  - 1
  SOLAS
  
  A poignant story which only rings true is one is familiar with the Spanish way of life
  
  and character of the people in that country. Very good ... read more »
  
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- - cineholic
  - 8 reviews
  - Goodwick
  - 04 Mar 2009 at 14:15
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- - 9
  - 0
  Brilliant movie - very...
  
  Brilliant movie - very uplifting - she brings light into everyone's life (including the doc who gets a baby suit for his wife). Will rent it again in the ... read more »
  
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  - DERBY
  - 18 Oct 2004 at 19:45
- - 7
  - 1
  Beautiful and superbly human
  
  Except for the rather overly sentimental resolution, I suppose I would have given this beautiful work five stars - had to watch it again within a day to ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - North-east, England
  - 11 Jul 2005 at 10:36
- - 6
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  Still good a 2nd time around
  
  I had watched this sometime ago and I remembered how much I liked it. The story is powerful and simple.
  
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  - Chantal
  - 1037 reviews
  - London
  - 02 Dec 2005 at 00:48
- - 6
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  A MORE BEAUTIFUL FILM WOULD BE HARD TO FIND
  
  As much of the general plot is written in earlier reviews i will not dwell on it. The The pace and depth of this film is simply stunning With excellent acting&#... read more »
  
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- - thecatisgreyatnight
  - 11 reviews
  - gravesend
  - 04 Dec 2005 at 17:14
- - 3
  - 0
  Powerful chraacter drama
  
  A beautiful but bitter 35 year old woman and her aging mother, both victims of an abusive father/husband, are forced together by his hospitalisation. In his ... read more »
  
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- - shoddy
  - 78 reviews
  - Jersey
  - 12 Jul 2005 at 20:24
- - 2
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  Profound & Moving Film on Compassion.
  
  Superb. The daughter has bought into the new international way of being - self-concerned, self-satisfying, selfish. But she is lonely and unloved, despite ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Oct 2006 at 21:08
- - 2
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  A Must See
  
  Really moving film. The characters were believable and sympathetic.
  
  I was really convinced by the different stories that were going on and especially... read more »
  
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- 1066587
- - Jumoak
  - 12 reviews
  - 24 Nov 2011 at 13:23
- - 2
  - 1
  Quality film
  
  This is a wonderful film with brilliant acting and a real story to tell. If you like Spanish cinema this is a fine example.
  
  Highly recommended!
  
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- - Jubsy007
  - London
  - 23 Mar 2005 at 09:23
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  A true to life film
  
  A very good film that depicts the tough reality of so many lonely women in our society.
  
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  - carterton, england
  - 14 Mar 2007 at 18:45
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  Dont watch the trailer
  
  This is a very powerful, extremely well acted, and directed movie. It may not be everyones taste but it presents very realistic scenarios and characters and the... read more »
  
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- - NottsDobbin
  - 11 reviews
  - Nottingham
  - 25 Jun 2008 at 14:43

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Critics' reviews
- Much lauded in Spain last year, Zambrano's film is a let-down. FernÃndez plays MarÃa, a hardboiled forty-nothing... read more on Time Out
- 44482
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14
- "...An uncommon degree of nuance and sensitivity....Beautifully understated and touching..."
- 9593
- - Hollywood Reporter
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- "...A tender redemptive glow..."
- 9592
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- "...[A] quietly moving film..."
- 9594
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- "...Modest and affecting..."
- 9595
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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  Like Satyajit Ray's APARAJITO or Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY, director Benito Zambrono's SOLAS is a quiet, realistic film that examines relationships between parents and children, the decline of traditional values, and urban anomie. While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother (...