Laura de Sol Movies
- 1997
In this Venezuelan-Spanish-Cuban drama, Spanish social worker Paula (Laura del Sol) travels to Venezuela to work in a women's prison. She sees that the women ignore one prisoner, Santera Soledad (Hirma Salcedo), who practices witchcraft. After Soledad is tortured by guards, Paula befriends her and soon learns about her spiritual father Eulogio (Victor Cuica), her family, and her past life at her jungle pueblo. Director Solveig Hoogesteijn attempted to capture the frenzy and mysticism of authentic jungle Santera dances and rituals. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laura de Sol, Hirma Salcedo, (more)
- 1984
In his second successful starring role in 1983, Agustín Gonzalez is a father who runs a wine shop in Madrid, a city under a three-year siege (1936-1939) because the Nationalists forces of Francisco Franco need to take Madrid before the fascist dictator can be installed in power. The siege has left the Madrileños with very little food, living under the threat of bombs, and worrying about the prospects of defeat. It is the sense of impending disaster, of hunger and deprivation that is oddly missing from this cinematic interpretation of the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez. The daughter in the family (Victoria Abril) enters into a love affair with a soldier and ends up having a baby, the son (Gabino Diego) is coming of age with the maid - and life seems to go on with all its proverbial ups and downs. But without the sharp dialogue of the play itself, this film is not as tautly strung, or as convincingly real as the stage production. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, (more)
