Klara Badiola Movies
- 2007
Having recently been released by kidnappers after being held for nine excruciating months, a haunted businessman is compelled to help a "forgotten" astronaut on the MIR space station return to Earth safely in director Diego Fandos' entry into the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival. The year is 1992, and respected businessman Iñaki Larrera has finally returned home following a harrowing ordeal. Upon hearing a news report about an astronaut who is stranded on the MIR space station due to the dissolving of the Soviet Union, Iñaki feels a strong obligation to help ensure the space explorer is safely returned to Earth. Meanwhile, a young waitress named Euriane begins to feel as if a mysterious stranger is tracking her every move while attempting to manipulate her life from behind the scenes. Despite the fact that Iñaki and Euriane have never met, these two troubled souls are about to find out just how much they truly have in common. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oihana Maritorena, Xavier Elorriaga, (more)
- 2006
Antonio Cuadri's drama La Buena Voz (aka The Good Voice) explores the relationship that develops between a father and a gay son he never knew existed -- two men suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into each other's lives. Pepe, a slightly listless, fiftysomething taxi driver with a heart condition, suddenly learns that he fathered a child, Jordi, from a quiet affair with his wife's girlfriend. Jordi, now HIV-positive, enters Pepe's world and recolors the elder's perspective and outlook on life, with his take-no-prisoners zeal for living and a restless, inquisitive spirit. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- José Luis Gómez, Pilar Velasquez, (more)
- 2000
Producer Inaki is reeling from a break up with temperamental aspiring actress Ione when he is hired by a religious order to make a film that will encourage young people to take up the pious life. His friend Karlos, a director who has also slept with Ione, grudgingly joins the project, and finds every creative instinct he might harbor overturned by a priest. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kike Diaz de Rada, Martxelo Rubio, (more)
- 1997
After journalist Juan (Kike Diaz de Rada) is shot in Colombia, his stockbroker sister Marta (Silvia Hunt) arrives to identify the body. At Juan's house, edgy Oscar (Diego Achury) arrives on a scooter, kidnaps her, and takes her to his shack in the squalid Bogota slums where she meets his sister Jenny (Valeria Santa) and becomes involved in their lives. Shown at the 1997 San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Silvia Munt, Klara Badiola, (more)
- 1993
Under Franco's Spain, the proud people of Basque country, whose mysterious origins vastly predate the Roman Empire, were forbidden to speak their native language, and a powerful movement sprang up to fight for independence. In this almost meditative film, set in the "dark days" of that time (1946-1965), Iciar (Eider Amilibia as a child, Garazi Elorza as a teen) is just a schoolchild who secretly speaks Basque (as does just about everyone else he knows). He and his friends become a society and miniature, and vow to be eternal friends. Iciar leaves for boarding school, and comes back some years later. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1990
In this crime drama, a jazz pianist working the summer at the exclusive Lady Bird Club in Portugal as an accompanist for legendary trumpet player (portrayed by Dizzy Gillespie!) has a passionate affair with an enigmatic, ultimately conniving woman, who turns out to be married to a brutal mobster who with his cohorts, smuggles guns in hopes of overthrowing Portugal's democratic government. A murder causes the woman's sudden departure. The pianist, by this time, is hopelessly in love with her and so journeys to Lisbon to find her. Once there, he ends up over his head and in mortal danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian Vadim, Helene De St. Pere, (more)
- 1984
In this prison-break drama, based on a true story, and set in a Spanish prison, highly intelligent Basque separatists plan and execute an elaborate break-out and high-tail it for France. Unfortunately, they are captured at the border. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1983
King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Xavier Elorriaga, Klara Badiola, (more)
