Elisa and Marcela

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Movie
German title Elisa and Marcela
Original title Elisa y Marcela
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2019
length 113 minutes
Rod
Director Isabel Coixet
script Isabel Coixet
production Joaquín Padró ,
Mar Targarona ,
Zaza Ceballos ,
José Carmona
music Sofia Oriana
camera Jennifer Cox
cut Bernat Aragonés
occupation

Elisa and Marcela (Original title: Elisa y Marcela , English-language title: Elisa & Marcela ) is a Spanish film directed by Isabel Coixet from the year 2019 . The film dramatizes the true story of the first same-sex marriage in Spain between the primary school teachers Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas on June 8, 1901 in A Coruña .

The melodrama premiered on February 13, 2019 in the competition at the 69th Berlinale .

action

Natalia de Molina takes on the role of Elisa in the film

Spain, in the 19th century: Marcela befriends Elisa on her first day at high school. The close friendship soon leads to a romantic relationship between the two. Marcela's parents become suspicious and decide to send their daughter to boarding school. Years later, Elisa and Marcela trained to be teachers and meet again. The old feelings flare up again and both decide to lead a life together. In order to escape the social pressure and talk of their Catholic fellow men, Elisa and Marcela forge a plan. Elisa wants to leave town for a while to come back dressed as a man and marry Marcela. In fact, both married in 1901 in the church of San Jorge in A Coruña.

background

Original wedding photo of Marcela and Elisa (1901)

Elisa and Marcela were filmed in black and white pictures and in the form of correspondence at filming locations between Catalonia and Galicia . For Isabel Coixet, the film was a long-standing project: “When I discovered the story between these two women who at that time challenged not only society but also the church and conventionalism with such courage and incredible passion, I knew that it was a story that I wanted and had to tell, ”says the filmmaker.

The film is a production by Rodar y Rodar in collaboration with Film Factory . Elisa and Marcela was published in 2019 on the streaming service Netflix .

reception

Even before the premiere of Elisa and Marcela at the Berlinale, around 160 cinema operators signed an appeal to festival director Dieter Kosslick and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters , according to the working group Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater , calling for Coixet's film to be excluded from the competition. The fear is that the film will not start regularly in the cinema, but will be marketed online by the streaming platform Netflix, which holds the distribution rights. According to the Berlinale, a regular theatrical release is planned in Spain.

The film received 1.4 out of four possible stars in the international reviews of the British specialist magazine Screen International , making it last among all 16 Berlinale competition films . Emin Alpers A Story of Three Sisters and Nadav Lapid's Synonymes (3.0 each) topped the ranking.

Awards

Isabel Coixet competed with Elisa and Marcela for the fourth time after 2003 , 2008 and 2015 at the Berlin International Film Festival for the Golden Bear , the main prize of the festival. The film was also in the selection for the Teddy Award , but never received an award .

literature

  • Narciso de Gabriel: Elisa e Marcela: alén dos homes . Vigo: Nigra Trea, 2009 (Libros da Brétema 13). - ISBN 9788495364753 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Narciso de Gabriel, Francisco Vázquez García, Renée DePalma: Defining desire: (Re) storying a “fraudulent” marriage in 1901 Spain . In: Sexualities 0 (0) 2018, pp. 1–20. DOI: 10.1177 / 1363460718817159 .
  2. Competition and Berlinale Special: Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan'an in the competition program / directorial debut of Chiwetel Ejiofor in the Berlinale Special . In: berlinale.de, January 10, 2019 (accessed January 10, 2019).
  3. Profile at berlinale.de (accessed on February 12, 2019).
  4. a b c ELISA & MARCELA WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ISABEL COIXET, SET TO BE NEXT SPANISH NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM . In: media.netflix.com, May 7, 2018 (accessed February 12, 2019).
  5. ↑ Cinema operators demand exclusion from Netflix films at the Berlinale . In: spiegel.de, February 12, 2019 (accessed February 12, 2019).
  6. ^ Dalton, Ben: Two films tie for top spot on Screen's final Berlin jury grid . In: screendaily.com, February 15, 2019 (accessed February 16, 2019).
  7. Selected films from the Berlinale 2019 at blog.teddyaward.tv (accessed on February 12, 2019).