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Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘
The rising star of Spanish cinema discusses being orphaned at six, new feature Romería and why she always works with children Family reunions in European arthouse cinema are almost always unhappy events, on a scale of strife that ranges from simmering resentment (Louis Malle’s Milou in May) to spectacular score-settling (Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen). There are still splatters of bad blood on the Sunday best in the films of Carla Simón, but the Spanish director has a rare gift: she makes you leave the cinema with renewed faith that having relatives and keeping in touch with them may actually be a wonderful thing. Indeed no film-maker working in Europe now is as capable of turning birthday gatherings, garden parties or poolside barbecues into thrillingly sprawling canvases of human virtue and vice as this 39-year-old rising star. From a riotous water fight in the Berlinale Golden Bear-winni
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘, The rising star of Spanish cinema discusses being orphaned at six, new feature Romería and why she always works with children Family reunions in European arthouse cinema are almost always unhappy events, on a scale of strife that ranges from simmering resentment (Louis Malle’s Milou in May) to spectacular score-settling (Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen). There are still splatters of bad blood on the Sunday best in the films of Carla Simón, but the Spanish director has a rare gift: she makes you leave the cinema with renewed faith that having relatives and keeping in touch with them may actually be a wonderful thing. Indeed no film-maker working in Europe now is as capable of turning birthday gatherings, garden parties or poolside barbecues into thrillingly sprawling canvases of human virtue and vice as this 39-year-old rising star. From a riotous water fight in the Berlinale Golden Bear-winni
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- Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘The Guardian - 2026-05-13T10:21:25+00:00
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