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Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Torre (born 1945) is a Spanish filmmaker known for directing box office hits such as The Other Side of the Bed (2002) and Spanish Affair (2014).
Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Torre ( Madrid, 1945) es un director de cine, productor y guionista español ganador del Oso de Oro del Festival de Berlín y de la Biznaga de Oro del Festival de Málaga. Biografía. Nació en Madrid en 1945.
Emilio Martínez Lázaro was born in 1945 in Madrid, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Spanish Affair (2014), The Other Side of the Bed (2002) and Lulú de noche (1986). He was previously married to Sol Alameda.
- January 1, 1
- Director, Writer, Producer
- Madrid, Spain
- Emilio Martínez Lázaro
- Plot
- Production
- Reception
- Bibliography
In Madrid in 1939 during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, Virtudes and Carmen, two young idealistic Republican militants, are encouraging their neighbours to keep faith in the cause of the Second Republic. However, the entry of Franco's Nationalist troops into the city is imminent. Fearing the bloody repression that was coming, many Republi...
The film is Spanish-Italian co-production by Enrique Cerezo PC, Pedro Costa PC and Filmexport Group.
Critical response
The review in Variety praised the cinematography and art direction, but remarked: "The 13 Roseslargely withers on the vine. [The film] is further let down by its psychological superficiality… an uncertain treatment which convinces neither historically nor dramatically".
Mary Farrelly (2021) A work of death: martyrdom, myth and dead women in contemporary Spanish film, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 22:1, 77-93, DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2021.1880785Larson, Kajsa C. 2012. “Remembering the Thirteen Roses: Blurring Fact and Fiction.” Nomenclatura: Aproximaciones a Los Estudios Hispánicos2: 1–21. doi:10.13023/naeh.2012.08.Rodríguez-Solás, D. (2016). ‘I haven’t done anything wrong!’Melodrama and victimization in Las 13 rosas/13 Roses (2007) and La voz dormida/The Sleeping Voice (2011). Studies in Spanish & Latin Amer...Emilio Martínez Lázaro is known as an Director, Writer, Actor, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Producer, Creator, Cinematography, Author, Assistant Director, and Director of Photography.
Mar 31, 2014 · Spain’s north and south amusingly collide in this exuberantly played but outdated fish-out-of-water screwball comedy from vet Emilio Martinez-Lazaro. Though the idea of such a culture...
1. Roller Coaster (2012) 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance. 4.8. Rate. Three children, a woman and two men, friends meet many years later again. Thus arises a triangle: at a vertex, the sex; in another, love; and in the Middle, the protagonist made a mess. ... See full synopsis »
