Carmen & Lola

Carmen & Lola
Carmen & Lola
	Film poster
Directed by	Arantxa Echevarría
Screenplay by	Arantxa Echevarría
Produced by	Arantxa Echevarría; Pilar Sánchez Díaz
Starring	Moreno Borja; Carolina Yuste; Rosy Rodríguez; Zaira Romero; Rafaela León
Cinematography	Pilar Sánchez Díaz
Edited by	Renato Sanjuán
Music by	Nina Aranda
Production; company	Tvtec Servicios audiovisuales
Distributed by	Super8
Release date	15 May 2018;
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Carmen & Lola (Template:Lang-es) is a 2018 Spanish drama film directed by Arantxa Echevarría. It was selected to screen in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Carmen lives in a Romani community in the suburbs of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon Romani woman who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and they discover a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.^[3]

Cast

Moreno Borja as Paco
Carolina Yuste as Paqui
Rosy Rodríguez as Carmen
Zaira Romero as Lola
Rafaela León as Flor

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89%, based on 19 reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10.^[4]

References

^ Goodfellow, Melanie (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight unveils 2018 line-up". Screen Daily. Screen International. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^ Keslassy, Elsa (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Lineup Boasts Colombia's 'Birds of Passage,' Nicolas Cage in 'Mandy'". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^ "Carmen y Lola". Directors' Fortnight. French Guild of Directors. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^ "Carmen and Lola (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 11 July 2019.

External links

Carmen & Lola at IMDb

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[1] Goodfellow, Melanie (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight unveils 2018 line-up". Screen Daily. Screen International. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

[2] Keslassy, Elsa (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Lineup Boasts Colombia's 'Birds of Passage,' Nicolas Cage in 'Mandy'". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

[3] "Carmen y Lola". Directors' Fortnight. French Guild of Directors. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

[4] "Carmen and Lola (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 11 July 2019.

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