Director - Julio Medem
Script - Julio Medem
Cinematographer - Kiko de la Rica
Music - Alberto Iglesias
Cast - Penélope Cruz, Nicolás De Vicente, Silvia Abascal, Àlex Brendemühl, Elena Carranza, Louis Tosar
Producers - Penélope Cruz, Julio Medem, Alvaro Longoria
Продукция - Backup Media, Ma Ma Películas AIE, Morena Films, Movistar+, TVE
A wondrously imaginative melodrama about life, death, romance, and motherhood, the latest from Spain's Julio Medem stars Penélope Cruz as a woman whose grace and enormous capacity for love guide her through tragedies and miracles alike.
Her heart already bruised by her husband's decision to spend the summer away from Madrid with his young lover, Magda (Cruz) is informed that she has breast cancer. Her kindly doctor (Àlex Brendemühl) holds out hope for Magda's survival, but she'll need painful radiation treatments and a mastectomy. The very day Magda learns of her diagnosis, she attends her little boy's soccer game. It's there that she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a scout for the legendary Real Madrid soccer team. Arturo receives a phone call with terrible news: his wife and daughter have been in an accident. Arturo collapses, Magda rushes him to the hospital where his wife lays in coma. These twin catastrophes give birth to a very special bond between Magda and Arturo – one that will endure as the courses of their lives take further twists and turns.
Medem is a fearless director, as evinced in films like Sex and Lucia and Lovers of the Arctic Circle, and Ma Ma is a shining example of his willingness to embrace audacious storylines and heightened emotions in the pursuit of rapturous cinema. He has found a perfect ally in Cruz, who also serves as one of the film's producers.
Cameron Bailey, Toronto IFF
Her heart already bruised by her husband's decision to spend the summer away from Madrid with his young lover, Magda (Cruz) is informed that she has breast cancer. Her kindly doctor (Àlex Brendemühl) holds out hope for Magda's survival, but she'll need painful radiation treatments and a mastectomy. The very day Magda learns of her diagnosis, she attends her little boy's soccer game. It's there that she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a scout for the legendary Real Madrid soccer team. Arturo receives a phone call with terrible news: his wife and daughter have been in an accident. Arturo collapses, Magda rushes him to the hospital where his wife lays in coma. These twin catastrophes give birth to a very special bond between Magda and Arturo – one that will endure as the courses of their lives take further twists and turns.
Medem is a fearless director, as evinced in films like Sex and Lucia and Lovers of the Arctic Circle, and Ma Ma is a shining example of his willingness to embrace audacious storylines and heightened emotions in the pursuit of rapturous cinema. He has found a perfect ally in Cruz, who also serves as one of the film's producers.
Cameron Bailey, Toronto IFF
НАГРАДИ И НОМИНАЦИИ -
Toronto ’15 – programme “Special Presentations”
Програма
- 20.03.2016
NDK – HALL 1 - 18.00 часа - 21.03.2016
CINEMA ODEON - 18.30 часа - 24.03.2016
CINEMA ODEON - 20.45 часа - 18.03.2016
CINEMA CITY MALL OF SOFIA - 19.00 часа - 23.03.2016
CINEMA CITY MALL OF SOFIA - 19.00 часа - 19.03.2016
CINE GRAND CITY CENTER SOFIA - 19.00 часа - 22.03.2016
CINE GRAND CITY CENTER SOFIA - 19.00 часа - 21.03.2016
CINEMA ARENA DELUX BULGARIA MALL - 19.00 часа - 24.03.2016
CINEMA ARENA DELUX BULGARIA MALL - 19.00 часа - 22.03.2016
CULTURE CENTER “G8” - 19.00 часа - 21.03.2016
EURO CINEMA - 18.00 часа - 29.03.2016
FORMAR HALL OF THE FORMER COMMUNIST PARTY HQ - 18.30 часа