La Estanquera de Vallecas (The Tobacconist of Vallecas)

Thursday, 21 March

La Estanquera de Vallecas (The Tobacconist of Vallecas)

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Eloy de la Iglesia | 1987 | Spain | 106' | ENG subs

The tobacconist of Vallecas is a rare thing in the genre known as cine quinqui − the cinema made in the late 70s en 80s in Spain, often by real street criminals and heroin addicts, that portrayed the reality of the working class youth in the suburbs of the big cities. This film goes beyond the dramatic rawness of the Eloy de la Iglesia’s earlier works turning the miserable setting into a theatrical comedy and focusing on the potential solidarity between working-class people against evildoers much more dangerous than the junkie and the brat from el barrio.

José Luis Manzano, the young man, is the most unforgettable of the actors. He was an almost illiterate rascal who became De la Iglesia’s muse and the most famous quinqui actor. His life is dramatically linked to the fictions he played. Despite of the recognition he gained with cinema, he didn’t get over his heroin addiction and life of little crimes. A couple of years after this film, his last one, he ended up in prison and everyone turned his back on him. During permission, he died of an overdose.

La estanquera is the quinqui-film that has reached the biggest public in Spain. It has nevertheless never been premiered abroad and it will be showed in Cavia for the first time with English subtitles.

 

Date & Time: 

Thursday, 21 March, 2019 - 20:30

Category: 

  • film

Price: 

5,- (Cineville card valid)
Filmhuis Cavia
Van Hallstraat 52-1
1051 HH Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Go through the gate. Cavia is on the right hand side, above Xena Sports. Take the stairs.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Filmhuis Cavia is a counterculture cinema, (legally) founded by a squatters movement in 1983, which programs films you aren't likely to see anywhere else.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

We're open a couple of days in the week. Look us up to find our monthly program.
Doors always open half an hour before the film starts.