There are a good handful of recent examples of our cinema that make up the list of the best spanish films of the 21st centuryas ‘As Bestas’, the most acclaimed thriller of recent years that has been the most watched movie on Netflix for several weeks, ‘The good boss’, ‘Champions’, ‘The minimal island’ or the Spanish film that won 6 Goya Awards and is a hit on Netflix and stars José Coronado.
If we look closely at some of these productions, we will find that there are two trends that take the cake, the thriller -in which filmmakers such as Alberto Rodriguez and Rodrigo Sorogoyen– and the comedywith established directors such as Javier Fesser and Fernando León de Aranoa.
However, there is a gender maybe little exploited in our cinemathat of adventure. The one that has given us so much joy outside of our country, with some of the best adventure films in history, like ‘The last Mohican’, ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, ‘1492: The conquest of paradise’ or, one of the more recent examples, ‘Z, the lost city’which you have available on Prime Video.
Despite this, we can rescue in Netflix a Spectacular adventure film about one of the most exciting stories of the conquest of Americawhich at the time had 6 nominations for the Goya Awardsincluding Best Visual Effects, which denote the ambition of this blockbuster (which had a budget of eight million euros) that It is available in the Netflix catalog until next Sunday, June 30.
Augustin Diaz Yaneswith some experience in this genre after releasing ‘Alatriste’, the adaptation of the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte starring Viggo Mortensen, would adapt another literary work by the writer in 2017. On this occasion, it would be ‘Gold’a feature film inspired by the expeditions of the Spanish conquistadors Lope de Aguirre and Núñez de Balboa.
In ‘Gold’ We embarked on an exciting journey through the 16th centuryin the midst of the conquest of America, in the search for a city of gold by a Spanish expeditionThe story begins in the Indies in 1538, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, and follows a group of soldiers sent by the King on a mission to find a city with solid gold roofs.
In addition to having an exceptional technical section, Díaz Yanes’ latest film about The search for El Dorado It boasted a spectacular cast with names such as Raul Arevalo, Óscar Jaenada, Bárbara Lennie and Jose Coronado.
In FOTOGRAMAS’ criticism of ‘Oro’we come to the conclusion that we are facing “an estimable portrait of the conquest of America narrated from the perspective of disillusionment and misery through characters who, wanting to escape poverty, break all kinds of rules and use violence without obstacles.”
Jorge is an expert in film, series and comics. His favourite genres are horror and science fiction, the perfect balance between the thunderous scream of the slasher and the disturbing silence of space and, although he flirts with auteur cinema in search of that hidden gem far from the mainstream, he does not hide, his thing is commercial cinema from the hand of Marvel, Star Wars, DC and Pixar.
This restless journalist discovered the mysticism of ‘Twin Peaks’ a few years ago and, since then, it has been just another concept trapped inside David Lynch’s head. When he manages to escape from the Black Lodge, he revisits the filmography of the master Carpenter, gets lost again among the pages of ‘Watchmen’ by Moore and Gibbons or sets out in search of new emotions in miniseries format.
After his brief stint in media such as TVE, RNE and the TV and communication section of La Razón, Jorge has spent more than a decade in the delirious world of advertising agencies, where he has had the opportunity to be part of various communication teams. which have allowed him to participate in soirees, events, junkets and various efforts with performers of the stature of Antonio de la Torre, Jared Harris, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Christina Hendricks. He arrived at FOTOGRAMAS in 2022, where he managed to carve out a niche as an editor to write about the most popular series, the best Alfred Hitchcock films or everything related to franchises, reboots, prequels, sequels, sequels and various nonsense of the moment, returning from This forms his passion for journalism and cinema.
Jorge has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, and is also a director at the RTVE Institute, where he acquired knowledge of pre-production, production and post-production of audiovisuals.
