Marta Etura Movies

Emilio Martinez-Lazaro's historical drama Las 13 Rosas (AKA 13 Roses) commences in 1939 Madrid. As the forces of nationalist general Francisco Franco sweep down into the city and bombs cascade onto Spanish buildings, two Republicans - Red Cross employee Virtudes (Marta Etura) and streetcar attendant Julia (Veronica Sanchez) - sit in a club watching a live set by two musicians: the Communist Canepa (Enrico Lo Verso), and Enrique (Asier Etxeandia), the husband of Blanca (Pilar Lopez de Ayala). Sensing obvious trouble given the country's circumstances, Canepa opts to flee for his life - receiving some fiscal support from Blanca - and a romance blossoms between Julia and Perico (Felix Gomez), a soldier from Franco's forces. Meanwhile, unrest and extreme distrust run rampant among the nationalists. Hungry for scapegoats - despite the lack of conclusive evidence - the troops respond to a rumor about a plot to rub out Franco by rounding up the 13 innocent young women of the title, including Julia, the socialist Adelina (Gabriella Pession) and 11 others - who are collectively imprisoned, given trial and slated for execution for treasonous activity. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Four years after cresting the pinnacle of cinematic acclaim with his comic festival hit Smoking Room (2002), Spanish writer-director Roger Gual returns with a sophomore outing, Remake (2006). Though this film will inevitably earn critical comparisons to such prior efforts as The Big Chill and Peter's Friends for its ensemble-in-a-house setup, Gual - unlike the directors of those prior efforts- aims straight for dark, multilayered, probing drama on themes of intergenerational disillusionment. The story concerns a tightly-knit group of four 1960s leftist radicals (two men and two women) who formed a hippie commune circa 1968-9, in a Catalunya farmhouse, and proudly upheld a "nontraditional" parental approach that shunned discipline. Over the forty years that followed, these onetime "revolutionaries" paired off, got married, raised their kids and settled into affluent, upper-crust bourgeois lifestyles. They now gather for a reunion in the same farmhouse, accompanied by their grown children, and by the fifth member of their old clique, Max (Mario Paolucci). As the sole remaining resident of the farmhouse, the wholly countercultural Max now plans to sell the property. As the weekend unfurls, the parents begin to project old super-8 movies of themselves from forty years prior, and must simultaneously confront the loss of their 1960s idealism and the ill-adjusted natures of their children, who blame their parents' non-conformist ways for their innate unhappiness and inability to succeed in the everyday world. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

A recently released psychiatric patient and a would-be thief make a pact that will dramatically alter the course of both of their lives in writer\director Pablo Malo's twisting drama. Adrian is a rich kid with some serious mental problems. Released from the psychiatric institution where he has lived since he was just a young boy, Adrian settles in the house granted to him by his estranged father. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, dreary-eyed criminal Gonzalo, the son of an ageing hooker, is running short of cash, and looking for a big score. When Gonzalo attempts to burgle Adrian's house, the unstable owner catches him red-handed. But Adrian isn't interested in turning Gonzalo in, and he's willing to forget the whole thing if the thief will just help him to acquire a pistol. Gonzalo agrees, sending both men's lives spiraling out of control. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

13 Curses tells the story of a young man who makes his way back to his family after spending years away. His mother now resides in a local mental hospital. When he visits her she warns him to leave in order to protect himself. He ignores her pleas, and soon learns that his deceased father's spirit haunts them. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide