Asfalto
2000 Spanish film
- 4 February 2000 (2000-02-04)
Running time
France
Asfalto (English: Asphalt) is a 2000 Spanish-French drama film directed by Daniel Calparsoro.
Cas
- Najwa Nimri as Lucía
- Juan Diego Botto as Charly
- Gustavo Salmerón as Chino
- Alfredo Villa as Antonio
- Antonia San Juan as Clarita
- Roger Ibáñez [es] as Luis
- Javier Nogueiras as Paco
- Rubén Ochandiano as Miguel
Production
Asfalto is Calparsoro's fourth feature and his fourth and last to star his then wife, the actress Najwa Nimri.[1] The couple divorced in 2000.
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 A to Z of Spanish Cinema, was for him a "return to marginal backgrounds and wild urban landscapes" [5]
References
- ^ "'Asfalto', en 'Historia de nuestro cine'". Diez Minutos (in European Spanish). 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ "Asfalto » Premios Goya 2023". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Stone, Rob; Rodriguez, Maria Pilar (2015-09-29). Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85772-769-5.
- ^ "Return", Between Urban and Wild, University of Iowa Press, pp. 161–174, doi:10.2307/j.ctt20q2226.21, retrieved 2023-10-06
External links
- Asfalto at IMDb
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Films directed by Daniel Calparsoro
- Jump into the Void (1995)
- Passages (1996)
- Blinded (1997)
- Asfalto (2000)
- Guerreros (2002)
- The Absent (2005)
- Invader (2012)
- Combustion (2013)
- To Steal from a Thief (2016)
- The Warning (2018)
- Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019)
- Sky High (2020)
- Centauro (2022)
- All the Names of God (2023)
- The Courier (2024)
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