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Love Gets a Room (Spanish: El amor en su lugar) is a 2021 musical drama film directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Set in the Warsaw ghetto, it stars Clara Rugaard and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo.
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| Directed by | Rodrigo Cortés |
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| Edited by | Rodrigo Cortés |
| Music by | Victor Reyes |
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| Distributed by | A Contracorriente Films (es) |
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| Language | English |
Set in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, the fiction focuses on a group of Jewish thespians performing a musical stage play.[1][2]
- Clara Rugaard as Stefcia[3][4][5][6]
- Ferdia Walsh-Peelo as Edmund[7][4][5][6]
- Mark Ryder as Patryk[7][4][6]
- Valentina Belle as Ada[7][6]
The screenplay was penned by David Safier and Rodrigo Cortés.[9] Nostromo Pictures' Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls were credited as producers.[8] The film was produced by Nostromo Pictures alongside Love Gets a Room AIE with the collaboration of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the participation of TVC and Crea SGR.[10][11]
The film made its world premiere at the 18th Seville European Film Festival (SEFF) in November 2021.[12][8] Distributed by A Contracorriente Films,[8] Love Gets a Room was theatrically released in Spain on 3 December 2021. Lionsgate handles the international sales.
Reviewing for Fotogramas, Blai Morell gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting the "virtuosity" of its mise-en-scène and the musical compositions by Víctor Reyes, while noting that there was some performer who was not up to the task.[13]
Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film 80 out of 100 points, deeming it to be a cinema masterclass by Cortés, "thrilling and captivating" in terms of both the mise-en-scène and its honesty, praising the production design and the actors' direction, while noting that there were some repetitive moments and some over-abuse of the musical score.[14]
Oti Rodríguez Marchante of ABC gave it a positive review with a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.[3]
Reviewing for El Periódico de Catalunya, Beatriz Martínez rated the film with 4 out of 5 stars, considering that, in this film, Cortés' virtuosity was put at the service of something more than a mere stylistic exercise.[15]
Jonathan Holland of ScreenDaily considered the result of the juxtaposition of a musical comedy stage performance and the desperate offstage lives of the fictional cast to be "a fine technical achievement, a moving enquiry into what young love can mean under such conditions, and Cortés' strongest film since 2010's Buried", also deeming it to be, from a technical point of view, "a tour-de-force in several ways".[16]
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| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2022 | 9th Feroz Awards | Best Director | Rodrigo Cortés | Won | [17] |
| Best Screenplay | David Safier, Rodrigo Cortés | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Score | Víctor Reyes | Nominated | |||
| 77th CEC Medals | Best Film | Won | [18] | ||
| Best Director | Rodrigo Cortés | Won | |||
| Best Actress | Clara Rugaard | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Rodrigo Cortés, David Safier | Won | |||
| Best Cinematography | Rafael García | Won | |||
| Best Editing | Rodrigo Cortés | Won | |||
| Best Score | Víctor Reyes | Won | |||
| 36th Goya Awards | Best Costume Design | Alberto Valcárcel | Nominated | [19] | |
| Best Production Supervision | Óscar Vigiola | Nominated | |||
| 14th Gaudí Awards | Best Art Direction | Laia Colet | Nominated | [20][21] | |
| Best Costume Design | Alberto Valcárcel | Nominated | |||
| 66th Sant Jordi Awards | Best Spanish Film | Won | [22] | ||
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