Country: Spain, France
Year: 2014
Duration: 127'
Alicia, a sick child who dreams of wearing the dress of her favorite Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Luis, her father, will try to do everything in his hand to achieve it. but his fate intersects with Barbara, an attractive young woman with mental disorders and with Damián, a teacher retired from everything but from his troubled past. Luis, Barbara and Damián will be trapped in a world of blackmails, where instincts and reason will struggle in a tragic battle, changing their lives forever.
Biography
film director
Carlos Vermut
(Madrid, 1980) wrote and directed his first feature film Diamond Flash in 2011, which he produced himself and distributed independently. The film won the Rizoma Award and the Best Film Award at Abycine, and received great critical acclaim automatically becaming a cult movie. In 2014 he wrote and directed his second feature film Magical Girl, winning the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film was presented in the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for 7 Goya Awards. With his third feature film, Quién te cantará (2018), presented both at the Toronto and San Sebastian, he built one of the most acclaimed films of Spanish cinema of theyear. Before dedicating himself fully to cinema, he worked as a comic book artist, publishing different comics (Psico Soda, Cosmic Dragon) while producing and directing the short films Maquetas (2009) and Don Pepe Popi (2012). He also wrote the screenplay of Paco Plaza’s La abuela (2021), film selected at the TFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
Michirones (cm, 2009), Maquetas (cm, 2009), Diamond Flash (2011), Don Pepe Popi (cm, 2012), La gran ciudad (cm, video, 2014), Magical Girl (2014), Quién te cantará (Chi canterà per te, 2018), Me envenenas (cm, video, 2019), Mantícora (2022).
Declaration
film director
“In my new film, as it happens in the latest Korean genre films, the story is what it is because the characters make certain decisions, and the characters grow the way they do because the story puts them in that situation. Therefore, they are inseparable. Magical Girl uses a chain of blackmails, a black cinema typical element, to speak about love, desire, obsession and the relationship between human beings and their darker side. The eternal conflict of the human soul struggling against their enemies”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Carlos Vermut. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Santiago Racaj. FILM EDITING: Emma Tusell. COSTUME DESIGN: Iratxe Sanz. MUSIC: Alessio Nanni. SOUND: Daniel de Zayas. CAST: José Sacristán, Marina AndruiX, Raimundo de los Reyes, Lucía Pollán, Luis Bermejo, Alberto Chaves, Julián Génisson, Roser Pujol, Toña Medina, Marisol Membrillo, Bárbara Lennie. PRODUCERS: Pedro Hernández Santos, Álvaro Portanet, Amadeo Hernández Bueno. PRODUCTION: Aquí y Allí Films, Televisión Española (TVE), Canal+ España, Sabre Producciones, Lovemonk.
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