Last night the delivery ceremony of the XXIII Forqué Awards of cinematography. The winners equally They were two films with very literary titles with a lot of prestige: The author, by Manuel Martín Cuenca, and Booksellerby Isabel Coixet.
We take a look at these films and others that share literary-themed titles. All have explored various aspects of the creative process, development, environments and characters that can revolve around the book. There are many more, but these are for today.
The author - Manuel Martín Cuenca (2017)
With great critical and public success, this story is starring Javier Gutierrez, which has also won the José María Forqué award from the press to best male performance.
Álvaro he wants to be a writer, but everything he writes is false and insipid. He works in a notary in Seville and his life is gray. It is Amanda, his wife, the one who starts to write and gets a best seller. This leads to the separation of the couple as Álvaro decides to write a great novel. But he is incapable because he has neither talent nor imagination. Juan, his teacher in a literary workshop, helps him investigate the foundations of the novel. So until one day Álvaro discovers that fiction is written with reality and begins to manipulate his neighbors and friends to create a true story that goes beyond fiction.
The bookstore - Isabel Coixet (2017)
Co-production between Spain and the United Kingdom. It stars a British cast mainly with names like Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy.
In the late 50s florence green decides to make one of his biggest dreams come true: to leave London and open a small bookstore in a town on the British coast. To his surprise, this decision will unleash all kinds of reactions among the inhabitants of the town.
The book publisher - Michael Grandage (2016)
Based on the 1978 National Book Award winning book Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, de Scott Berg. It's a PBritish production starring Colin Firth Jude Law and Nicole Kidman among others. It tells us the chronicle of the times of Max Perkins, the world's most admired book publisher played here by Colin Firth.
Perkins was behind the most great writers of the XNUMXth century. Always committed to promoting talent, he was the great shadow behind literary stars such as F. Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce) or Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West). In this movie he focuses on how Perkins set about polishing that talent and style of Tom Wolfe (Jude Law), in addition to highlighting the extraordinary story of friendship with him and his wife.
The book Thief - Brian Percival (2013)
Also based on a novel by the writer Marcus zusak, which describes the adventures of a german girl She was nine years old from the time she was given up for adoption by her mother until the end of World War II. It is starring Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse and Emily Watson.
The reader - Riccardo Gabrielli (2012)
To lovers of Latin American cinema This Colombian production may interest you. Star it Carolina Guerra, Diego Cadavid and Carolina Gómez.
Searching for a mysterious briefcase that has disappeared and that is of great interest to everyone has some clues that are described in a German text. The pair of brothers who find them will force a university student to translate it. They will be the only ones who know your secret, but nothing is as it seems.
The reader - Stephen Daldry (2008)
Another title based on the novel written by german bernhard schlink. They starred in it Kate Winslet, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for this role, Ralph Fiennes y David kross among others.
We are in Germany after World War II and michael berg (David Kross), a fifteen-year-old boy, loses consciousness while returning from school. Hanna schmitz (Kate Winslet) is a serious and reserved woman who is twice his age, helps him and takes him home. Between the two a romance passionate and secretive which is interrupted by Hanna's disappearance. Eight years later Michael meets her again, but in a situation that he would never have imagined.