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El dulce sabor del éxito_peliplat

El dulce sabor del éxito (2021)

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75 min  |  Documentary

"El dulce sabor del éxito" is a poetic journey about the sweetness of success. But do we really comprehend success? Filmed in the charming district of Lavapiés in the heart of Madrid, the film counts with the participation of figures such as tenor Plácido Domingo, actress Rossy de Palma, philosophers Fernando Savater and Javier Sádaba, representatives of the artistic world such as photographer Alberto García-Alix, artist Pilar Albarracín, comedian Leo Bassi, director of Teatro de la Zarzuela Daniel Bianco and his institutional support and singer/actor Enrique R. Del Portal. Also participating in the documentary are personalities from the world of science and psychology from global TED Talks, such as psychiatrist Martin Seligman, Harvard University professor Nancy Etcoff, motivational lecturer Victor Küppers and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, as well as psychologist Tania Evans, director of the Research Center on Values -CIVSEM- Miguel Ángel Velázquez or figures with a wide impact on media such as youtuber JPelirrojo. María Teresa Paniagua made a career as a singer of Zarzuela at the time, and is the Spanish version of Rome's poet Vergil in this film that guides audiences in this inspiring journey. She is a unique, energetic and explosive character, and her positive attitude penetrates unwittingly our conscience to make us reflect on the authenticity of our lives. This documentary tries to be a balm for the spirit.

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The Candidate (2018)

7.1
7.1
132 min  |  Thriller, Drama, Mystery

2007. Manuel López-Vidal is a veteran Spanish politician and the right-hand of Frías, autonomous community's president (working as member of Spain's governing party), who he has an upper high-class lifestyle with his wife Inés and his teen daughter Nati. But behind of his long carrier and the respect of his party's partners and friends as Cabrera, Bermejo, Gallardo and Fernando, truth is totally different: Manuel is a crooked and corrupt man who since many years ago uses his politic position together his friends deviating foreign aids and getting money by means of any illegal way. When Gallardo is arrested accused of fraud and politic corruption, Manuel warms all his friends about to keep silence hoping that the police forgets the case by not founding new evidences. But when it's revealed in the newspapers that himself has been recorded in personal conversations talking about it, the fictional world of respect and honor created by Manuel falls down. With the elections closing the next year, the party closes ranks to save itself from the crisis: Frías distances from him to keep clean his name, the rest of partners blame him of their own corruptions and Manuel feels that there is a traitor close to him sending information to the police. Taking desperate measures, Manuel meets Alvarado, the newest politician of the party, to make a deal: give him all evidences he finds and Alvarado helps Manuel to avoid the jail. With time running out, Manuel starts a race against the clock to find evidences and proofs trying to ruin his former friends, looking for destroy the own party if he finally is found guilty in the incoming trial. But will can Manuel get these evidences to save himself before the party take extreme measures against him?

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A Normal World (2020)

5.5
5.5
103 min  |  Drama

In 2020 Madrid, Ernesto Caral, a sarcastic loudmouthed fortysomething theater director is trapped in a middle-age crisis: after splitting with his domestic partner Julia, he moves to a new floor with their smart teenage daughter Cloe. Ernesto belongs to a clan of artists: his mother Carolina was an actress, his brother Max is a concert pianist, and Cloe is a talented painter (who wants to be a lawyer). Ernesto divides his time between finding a new project to recover his fallen-into-disgrace career, and caring for his aged mother. Worried as a number of her friends die in a short time, Carolina forces Ernesto to promise that after she dies, he'll take her corpse to her birth town in Altea, Alicante, Valencia, and throw it into the sea. While he's reluctantly filming a TV series to solve his money troubles, he takes a bad-news call from Max: Carolina has died suddenly of a heart attack. Devastated with the loss and doubtful he can keep his promise, Ernesto finally steals the hearse during the funeral service and calls Cloe who, aware of the promise, determines to make the trip with Ernesto. While Max warns the funeral company and they call the police, Cloe and Ernesto start a long road trip of 479 km (about 297 miles) where the different secrets and troubles from the past collide not only between father and daughter but a troubled Max, always cared for by his boyfriend Iván, who feels himself as a fraud by his career as pianist, playing others' songs instead of his own. While the police sends an APB to catch Ernesto, he must face the life he lived and his fragile relationship with Cloe, who is still resentful about her parents' split. The father/daughter journey is an unforgettable and very touching odyssey for both.

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