Luna Llena

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Nominated for 5 Goya Awards (Best Cinematography, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Original Score and Best Sound) and based on a novel by the well-known writer Antonio Muñoz-Molina, this nerve wracking thriller describes a crime in a small provincial city, where a young girl's body is found brutally murdered in the woods. Obsessed by the grizzly murder, the lead inspector searches throughout the city for a glimpse of the killer's gaze that might explain the crime. Just as in real life a murder does not stop with the crime itself, but it affects all the people related to the victims and the murderer. The discovery of the young girl's body proves to be the key that unleashes a series of events that include a man and a woman's first meeting, why the man is forced to face his dark past, and why the woman falls in love with him.

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An Elegant Mystery, Thriller, and Love Story.......2004-04-09

LUNA LLENA is a captivating, haunting, superb film from Spain. Director Ana Christina Henriquez, using a screenplay adapted from Antonio Munoz Molina's novel by the same name, displays uncanny skills for weaving the horrifying murder of a small girl, the subsequent effects this brutal murder has on the small town in Spain (on the populace, the parents, the priest, the school, etc), the investigation of the murder and a subsequent near murder, and the parallel development of relationships of love, understanding and self-acceptance among the lead characters. The Detective (Miguel Angel Sola in a fine performance) comes to the story with a past that includes a wife confined to a mental institution, alcoholism, and other aspects about which we never learn. The murder profoundly affects this man who has always thought he didn't care to have children, and he turns to the town priest for paternal and emotional advice. He also encounters a schoolteacher whose husband left her with her infant son 14 years ago ( Adriana Ozores - as sensitive an actress as any on the screen today) and despite their personal pasts, the two fall in love. The murderer is made known to the audience very early in the film and watching his psychopathic development compounds the visceral anxiety of the tenor of this movie. The murderer believes that the Full Moon drives him to evil: the Inspector and the schoolteacher feel the influence of the Full Moon as an instigator in their new love. The way Henriquez elects to use the cinematography, the pacing, the musical score, and the careful character delineation are nothing short of phenomenal. With excellent performances by Juan Diego Bola, Fernando Ferman-Gomez, Charo Lopez, among others, this is a brilliant film. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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Luna Llena/No Te Fallare
Starring: Héctor Campobello , Dalila Colombo , Beatriz Vásquez , Roberto Moll , and Chela Atencio
Director: Ana Cristina Henríquez , and Manuel Ríos San Martín
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000E6UJRE
Release Date: 2006-04-11

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Luna Llena: A brutal murder shocks a small city. The victim is an innocent little girl. The killer is a young man who hides a raging fury behind a smiling face. And the detective is a troubled loner whose pursuit of the killer leads him on a harrowing journey through evil. No Te Fallare: On graduation day, eight high school classmates pledged eternal friendship. Then something happened. What was it, and why did it shatter their bond? Three years later, one of the classmates, is caught in a web of drug dealing, deceit, double crosses and murder. Can friends from her past help her escape a dead end?

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