As part of our ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, we will be running two study mornings for Spanish school and college groups.
This AS/ A2 study day will be focused on the film María y el Araña and its main features. Carmen Herrero and Ana Valbuena will introduce the film in Spanish, providing relevant historical and contextual information as well as key vocabulary to understand some of the key aspects of the film. The screening will be followed after lunch by a series of language exercises in Spanish based on the film, its characters, settings and contexts. Themes discussed during the session will include youth, family and social relationships, work and study life, first love and social exclusion. There will be also an overview of recent Argentinean cinema.
Led by Carmen Herrero, Head of Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University and Ana Valbuena, Spanish Language Tutor at the Instituto Cervantes.
Screening: María y el Araña (12A)
(María and Spider)
Dir María Victoria Menis / AR FR EC 2013/ 90 mins / In Spanish with English Subtitles
Florencia Salas, Diego Vegezzi, Mirella Pascual, Luciano Suardi, Lucía Ruiz Ortiz, Pablo Aguirre Andrade
Menis’ award-winning third film is the meticulously crafted, tragic tale of two Argentine teenagers falling between the cracks in a grossly unfair world. While peddling cheap products on the underground, the studious 13-year-old María is drawn out of her shell by the attentions of a young juggler dressed in a Spiderman costume. But as masks slip, an increasingly oppressive atmosphere suggests a dark secret threatening to overshadow young love.
Projector MFL is supported by Routes into Languages North West at Manchester Metropolitan University.
