La soledad is a 2007

2007 in film

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 Spanish

Spain

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 film

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 written and directed by Jaime Rosales

Jaime Rosales (director)

Jaime Rosales is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney, .He did several...

. It was Rosales's second film, he had previously made, The Hours of the Day. Solitary Fragments (La soledad), divided in five chapters, follows a dual narrative

Dual Narrative

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, the characters' lives unfold as a series of everyday concerns over health, work, shelter, relationships and money. Made with a small budget and with actors from the theater, the film was nominated for 3 Goya Awards

Goya Awards

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, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won all three awards, including the Best Film and Director award. Voted by Spanish film critics as Best Film of the year for that reason, it was given the Fotogramas de Plata Award.

Plot

Adela, a young woman recently separated from her husband and with one-year-old baby, is tired of her life in a small hometown Leon. She leaves behind the mountains and the country life to move to Madrid. She gets a job as a hostess and moves into an apartment with Carlos and Ines, a nice young couple. The three get along well then, sharing meals, doubts and leisure. Antonia, Ines's mother, has a small neighborhood supermarket. She leads a fairly quiet life with her boyfriend Manolo. Antonia has two more daughters: Nieves and Helena, the eldest. However, little by little, Antonias's pleasant life begins to crumble. First, a doctors detects that Nieves has cancer. Later, the already tense relationship between her daughters gets more complicated when Helena asks her mother borrowed money to buy an apartment on the beach.

Adela has no major difficulties in adapting to urban life, even though the father of her baby does not help her economically. While traveling by bus, she is one of the victims of a terrorist attack, leaving her life in tatters. From that moment she should find the strength to return to a normal life.

Cast

• Sonia Almarcha as Adela
• Petra Martínez as Antonia
• Miriam Correa as Inés
• Nuria Mencía as Nieves
• María Bazán as Helena
• Jesús Cracio as Manolo
• Luis Villanueva as Carlos
• Luis Bermejo as Alberto

Awards and nominations

To see the complete list of awards and nominations, see this link.

Goya Awards

Goya Awards

The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards....

• Best Director (Jaime Rosales, winner)
• Best Film (winner)
• Best New Actor (José Luis Torrijo, winner)

Spanish Actors Union

• Best Actress (Petra Martínez, nominee)

External links

• Solitary Fragments at the Internet Movie Database
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