Asfalto

2000 Spanish film
  • 4 February 2000 (2000-02-04)
Running time
90 minutesCountriesSpain
FranceLanguageSpanish

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

  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

External links

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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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