U.S. Premiere of Multiple Goya Winner ‘Marshland’ Added to Miami Film Festival Lineup
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Raúl Arévalo and Javier Gutíerrez in Marshland
Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival has just scored the U.S. Premiere of Marshland (La isla mínima), a stylish thriller which last week became the third highest Goya-awarded film in history—only The Sea Inside and Ay, Carmela! have won more—making it a worth-the-wait late addition to our CineDwnTwn Galas presented by Miami DDA program.
Set in 1980, in the swampy lowlands of the Guadalquivir River in southern Spain, Alberto Rodríguez’s Marshland is an atmospheric, highly skilled detective story with an eerie sense of unease. Two teenage girls have disappeared after a local fiesta, and two mismatched and troubled cops from Madrid arrive to investigate—Juan (Javier Gutíerrez, winner of the Best Actor Goya) and Pedro (Raúl Arévalo, in a very different role than his comedic turn in the Festival’s awards night film, Sidetracked). The two outsider detectives are greeted with suspicion and hostility from the townspeople, including the victims’ parents. Ensnarled in sordid discoveries and clues that only deepen the confusion and mystery, Marshland explores more than a potential murder—rife with political nuance, it upends a conservative faction in a Spain still traumatized by the harsh light of post-Franco liberalism.
Director Alberto Rodríguez hails from Seville, Spain. His first feature, The Pilgrim Factor (2000), co-directed with Santi Amodeo, won the Best New Director award at San Sebastian Film Festival. As a solo director, his filmography includes The Suit (2002); 7 Virgins (2005), which won a Special Mention in the Knight Ibero-American Dramatic Competition at the 2006 Miami International Film Festival; After (2009) and Unit 7 (2012).
Marshland will have its U.S. Premiere at Olympia Theater at Gusman Center on Thursday, March 12 at 9:45 PM, following the screening of Kamikaze. [/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][more info & tickets] — Tatyana Chiocchetti[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
