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Una serie sobre el peso del tabú y la herencia psicológica transmitidos de generación en generación. © Max

Ha comenzado el rodaje de “Pubertat”, una nueva serie española original de Max y creada por Leticia Dolera. Se trata de un drama familiar que explora el peso del tabú y la herencia psicológica transmitidos de generación en generación. La serie cuestiona si un niño de 13 años puede ser un agresor sexual y, en caso afirmativo, de quién sería la responsabilidad: del niño, de la familia o de la sociedad.

En “Pubertat”, la armonía de una comunidad se ve truncada por una denuncia de agresión sexual en redes sociales que apunta a tres adolescentes como culpables. Los adultos a cargo de los señalados, como agresores y como víctima, tendrán que lidiar con la tensión de la situación y enfrentarse a su propia relación con la sexualidad. En el proceso descubrirán que quizá no...

The 2024 SXSW Film and TV Festival has announced its lineup, with Netflix’s splashy sci-fi series 3 Body Problem opening the fest and the Ryan Gosling and Emily Bunt action comedy The Fall Guy acting as a centerpiece screening.

David Benioff and Dan Weiss are behind 3 Body Problem, based on the book of the same name. David Leitch directed the Universal feature about a Hollywood stuntman (Gosling) who is tasked with tracking down the star of the latest movie he is working on.

The Pamela Adlon movie Babes will also act as a centerpiece screening. The narrative competition features include Crystal Moselle’s latest, The Black Sea, and Barbie Ferreira starrer Bob Trevino Likes It. Elsewhere in the lineup are a Cheech and Chong doc, Tommy Dorfman’s directorial debut, Lilly Singh comedy Doin’ It, and My Dead Friend Zoe, exec produced by NFL star Travis Kelce.

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A psychologist is forced to confront the fallout of a past romance in a neo-noir from Ventura Durall lacking visual punch

This is a Catalan neo-noir from director Ventura Durall that has a certain literary class: it’s wrapped in Hitchcockian shadow, fascinated by questions of identity, desire and time. But it’s a shame that Durall doesn’t find his torrid and sophisticated story the visual register it deserves, leaving The Offering with a humdrum televisual ambience that’s a bit unsatisfying.

Violeta (Anna Alarcón) is an apparently thriving psychologist who is one day confronted with a client, Rita (Verónica Echegui), who makes a disturbing revelation: she has discovered that her husband Jan (Alex Brendemühl) is still obsessed with his first love from 20 years back … Violeta. The increasingly brazen Rita tries to manoeuvre her into meeting Jan, ostensibly to cure their marital problems. As Violeta pop pills and prevaricates,...

The story of a man's dubious quest to win back the woman he abandoned two decades previously, The Offering is billed as an erotic thriller, but what does that mean, exactly? There's quite a bit of nudity but that's commonplace in Spanish film and doesn't necessarily suggest lust. There's one passionate sex scene, close to the end, but it's not especially explicit and is more interesting because of the complex and conflicting emotions which the actors are communicating at the same time. Earlier on, it's a sex scene between a married couple that stands out, and notably so because of the lack of passion involved. Nico (Pablo Molinero) is eagerly engaged but seems not to care that his wife is barely moving, as if this is something he has already become used to. She, Violeta (Anna Alarcón) has her face turned away from him and looks as if she would.

In today’s Global Bulletin, Warner Bros. announced the Jan. 7 theatrical release for “Operation Mincemeat”; Nigerian Oscar submission “The Milkmaid” to headline BFI African Odyssey; Sovereign Film Distribution picks up Spanish thriller “The Offering”; BBC Music documents Glastonbury presents Live at Worthy Farm; and “Friends: The Reunion” heads to Zee5 in India.

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John Madden’s Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald-starring WWII drama “Operation Mincemeat” will release in the U.K. and Ireland on Jan. 7, 2022, just in time for awards season, as reported by Deadline. Warner Bros. is distributing in most of Europe, including the U.K. and Ireland, with Netflix taking North American and Latin American rights in a $15M deal struck in March. Possible theatrical plans or a platform release date have not yet been announced by the streamer for those territories.

“Operation Mincemeat” is the film adaptation of Ben McIntyre’s novel, adapted by screenwriter Michelle Ashford.