SPANISH CINEMA FRIDAY – E PREMTJA SPANJOLLE – VIERNES de CINE ESPAÑOL
With the Embassy of Spain in Albania, screening on the 1rst of April 2011 – 7 p.m. - Free Entrance
‘La Vida Perra de Juanita Narboni’
by Farida Benlyazid
101 min – 2005 – Comedy – Spain
(Spanish language with English subtitles)
with Mariola Fuentes, Nadia Alami, Francisco Algora, Annie Aubert…
Daughter of a British father from Gibraltar and an Andalusian mother, Juanita Narboni (a remarkable performance by Mariola Fuentes) witnesses the Spanish invasion during the Civil War, the arrival or refuges from across war-torn Europe, and the return of the city to Arab control following Moroccan independence. Her sister Helena elopes with a Frenchman; her close friend Esther, a Sephardic Jew, suffers an impossible love for a Moroccan Muslim. Yet while Juanita stands as witness to all this and more, she herself keeps the world at bay, denying her own emotions behind a façade of colonial privilege and social standing.
Farida Benlyazid has created a moving portrait of a rapidly changing world as experienced by a character who herself resists any change at all.
Hyrja e Lire – Entrada Libre – Free Entrance – Entrée Libre – Eintritt Frei
