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The Bride

The Bride (La novia)

Movie · 2015 · 9 people

Paula Ortiz directed The Bride, known in Spanish as La novia, a 2015 drama. A Spanish-language co-production between Spain, Germany and Turkey, it blends drama and romance and runs 93 minutes. It is Ortiz's second feature after De tu ventana a la mía (2011). She wrote the screenplay as a free adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1933 tragedy Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding), which is why Lorca shares the writing credit. It opened in Spain on 11 December 2015.

Inma Cuesta, Álex García and Asier Etxeandía lead the cast, joined by Leticia Dolera, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Ana Fernández, Manuela Vellés, Mariana Cordero and Verónika Moral.

The film screened in the Zabaltegi section of the 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival and earned twelve Goya nominations, among them best film, best director, best actor and best actress. It was one of three titles that could have become Spain's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not chosen.

DirectorPaula Ortiz

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Álex García Fernández Álex García Fernández Actor · 44 years old Ana Fernández Ana Fernández Actor · 61 years old Asier Etxeandía Asier Etxeandía Actor · 51 years old Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Stage actor · 1940 – 2015 Inma Cuesta Inma Cuesta Actor · 46 years old Leticia Dolera Leticia Dolera Film actor · 45 years old Manuela Vellés Manuela Vellés Actor · 39 years old Mariana Cordero Mariana Cordero Actor · 77 years old Verónika Moral Verónika Moral Actor · 48 years old

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In freely adapting Lorca's Blood Wedding, Paula Ortiz sets out to rebuild it in her own cinematic language rather than film a faithful stage version, which is no small ambition for a second feature. At 93 minutes it is long enough to gather the tragedy's intensity without dissipating it. The trio of Inma Cuesta, Álex García and Asier Etxeandía carries the film's emotional weight. Twelve Goya nominations and a slot in San Sebastián's Zabaltegi section show the approach was taken seriously. Still, bringing a poetic tragedy to the screen is always risky: such adaptations either stay too close to the stage or slide into ornament. Whether the film holds that balance in every scene is debatable, but its nerve deserves credit.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a heavy, beautiful tragedy that anyone whose path has crossed literature keeps tucked away somewhere. The Bride reinterprets the text freely, so rather than looking for strict fidelity one should listen to the film's own voice. Stories in which love and fate are tangled together were the lifeblood of our old melodramas too, and one hears a familiar heartbeat. Although it is a Spanish-language film, it is a pleasant detail that Turkey is among the co-producers. For an eye raised on poetry, it is an adaptation worth watching with interest.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

By retelling a 1933 tragedy more than eighty years later, The Bride raises an interesting question: do the expectations woven around weddings and marriage still carry the same weight today? Treating Lorca's text as a free adaptation suggests the work is as timeless as it is tied to its own era. As a co-production between Spain, Germany and Turkey, it is also a good example of how European cinema is now made across national borders. The film was one of three titles that could have become Spain's Oscar entry. Because it does not spell out its social context very openly, though, viewers have to read that side of it for themselves.

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