Asfalto

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Asfalto
Directed by Daniel Calparsoro
Starring Najwa Nimri
Juan Diego Botto
Release date
  • 4 February 2000 (2000-02-04)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesSpain
France
LanguageSpanish

Asfalto is a 2000 Spanish-French drama film directed by Daniel Calparsoro.

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Production

Asfalto is Calparsoro's fourth feature and his fourth and last to star his wife, the actress Najwa Nimri. [1]

Nominations

Asfalto was nominated at the Goya Awards for the Best original music. [2]

Legacy

Asfalto was part of the program "Historia de nuestro cine" in 2019. [3]

The film is noted for being rooted in the Basque heritage of its director [4] and, according to the The A to Z of Spanish Cinema, was for him a "return to marginal backgrounds and wild urban landscapes" [5]

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References

  1. "'Asfalto', en 'Historia de nuestro cine'". Diez Minutos (in European Spanish). 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  2. "Asfalto » Premios Goya 2023". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  3. RTVE, PRENSA (2019-12-12). "'Asfalto' y 'El juego de la verdad': semana de coproducciones europeas en 'Historia de nuestro cine'". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  4. Stone, Rob; Rodriguez, Maria Pilar (2015-09-29). Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-0-85772-769-5.
  5. "Return", Between Urban and Wild, University of Iowa Press, pp. 161–174, doi:10.2307/j.ctt20q2226.21 , retrieved 2023-10-06