The Other Side (2000 film)

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The Other Side (2000 film)
File:The Other Side (2000 film) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Salvador García Ruiz
Produced by
Screenplay by Salvador García Ruiz
Based on El otro barrio
by Elvira Lindo
Starring
Music by Pascal Gaigne
Cinematography Teo Delgado
Edited by Carmen Frías
Production
company
Tornasol Films
Distributed by Alta Films
Release dates
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  • 24 September 2000 (2000-09-24) (Zinemaldia)
  • 11 October 2000 (2000-10-11) (Spain)
Running time
 130 min
Country Spain
Language Spanish

The Other Side (Spanish: El otro barrio) is a 2000 Spanish drama film written and directed by Salvador García Ruiz (es) and based on the novel by Elvira Lindo. It stars Àlex Casanovas and Jorge Alcázar.

Plot

Set in Vallecas, the plot follows the vicissitudes of Ramón, a chubby teenager who is involved in a combo of tragedies, unwillingly slicing the jugular of his best friend with the edge of a cockle can, prompting the latter's girlfriend's death by fall from balcony, and ensuing death of another neighbor. While the criminal investigation tries to shed light on the matter, Ramon is taken to a children's home. Via the contact established by Ramón's sister Gloria, Ramón is provided help by Marcelo, a lawyer raised in the hood who has returned to Madrid from Barcelona.[1][2][3][4][5]

Cast

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Production

García Ruiz's sophomore feature after Mensaka, The Other Side is based on the novel El otro barrio by Elvira Lindo.[5] It was produced by Tornasol Films and it had the participation of Vía Digital (es).[2] Shooting locations included Vallecas.[5]

Release

The film screened at the 48th San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2000.[3][7] Distributed by Alta Films,[2] it was theatrically released in Spain on 11 October 2000.[1] Wild Bunch scooped the international distribution rights.[8]

Reception

David Rooney of Variety considered that García Ruiz delivers "a dense, intimate drama that avoids all the cliches of the problem-teen genre and instead creates an affecting, acutely observed portrait of people in a specific but universally recognizable social milieu", otherwise deeming the psychological drama to be "too subtle" for wide commercial coverage.[2]

José María Caparrós Lera highlights the film's "extreme callousness and narrative classicism" as its hallmarks.[1]

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered the film to be bold yet unbalanced, assessing that the script is not "well-constructed" nor "calculated", but quite the opposite, with the sketch of the lawyer suffering from inaccuracies that imperil the film's formal framework.[9]

Accolades

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result
2001 15th Goya Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Salvador García Ruiz Nominated [10]
10th Actors Union Awards Best Secondary Performance in a Film Pepa Pedroche Nominated [11][12]
Best Minor Performance in a Film Guillermo Toledo Nominated

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 151.
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