Amalia Ulman's droll first feature 'El Planeta' stars the writer-director opposite her real-life mother as an impoverished pair shrugging off destitution in a post-financial crisis town on the Spanish ...
The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center Thursday announces the complete lineup for the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films rolling out April 28 – May 8. The films will ...
El Planeta is as goofy one-off, a singularly eccentric sort of imaginative home movie in which writer-director Amalia Ulman co-stars with her non-pro mother Ale Ulman as women reduced to penury in a ...
In Amalia Ulman's peculiar but poignant debut feature, the director casts herself opposite her own mother with surprising success. Holed up in a cold, poky apartment in the faded Spanish coastal town ...
Loosely inspired by the true story of mother and daughter grifters who bilked various merchants in the coastal city of Gijón while one of the worst economic crises in Spain crippled the country (it ...
Comparisons abound—Frances Ha and Eric Rohmer seemingly closest at hand, Martín Rejtman if you want to dig a bit deeper—but it’s the pleasure of discovering a new voice that runs through El Planeta, ...
El Planeta, the debut feature from Spanish filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Amalia Ulman, is fascinated with the ways that clothing can tell a deceptive story about the person wearing it. Ulman ...
Like the films of French master Philippe Garrel, conceptual artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman’s feature debut is both of its time and yet somehow not. References to social media, influencer culture, ...