Ali ( Alicia en el país de Ali )

Ali (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Alicia en el país de Ali
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min + 41 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Paco R. Baños

Written By:
Paco R. Baños
Rafael Cobos

Actors:
Julián Villagrán ..... Vicente
Nadia de Santiago ..... Ali
Verónica Forqué ..... Alicia
Angy ..... Julio
Adrián Lamana ..... Anton
Lluís Marco
Pablo Paredes
Paco Pérez Ortega

Synopsis:

In a role reversal that is challenging for any young adult, Ali has become a caretaker to her mother's delicate mental health. While her mother's mood alternates between boyfriend-induced happiness to solitary depression, Ali is left to rebelliously carve her own place in the world. Scarred by the past, she chainsmokes, refuses to learn to drive, and is terrified of falling in love. Ali spends her days working in a supermarket and the rest of her time off on misadventures with her friend. But when she meets Julio, her tough veneer starts to crack and she may have to amend her strict rules of non-engagement. Nadia de Santiago gives a star-making performance as Ali, a multi-layered young woman who has been forced to grow up too quick yet is holding on desperately to her youth. The world that writer-director Paco R. Baños has designed for her is delightfully quirky, giving her a true sense of charisma that affords her buoyancy to float above her challenging situation. Baños' debut feature is an assured debut that breathes life into the coming-of-age genre, stylistically painting in lush primary colors but finding the more complicated colors mixing beneath the surface.

Having watched with horror her neurotic mom Alicia (Veronica Forque) stumble from unhappy relationship to unhappy relationship, Ali has assumed the role of nurturer to her own mother. So she's angry to see Alicia take up with taxi driver Antonio (Luis Marco). But it's clear that though she's a late-teen rebel, smoking hard and selling cheap alcohol to the kids from the block, Ali's disapproval of her mother's hunt for love is driven in part by her awareness of her own emotional inhibitions.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 02 October, 2013.

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