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Cernuda, Pilar
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Spanish cinema's great solitude
The little film 'La Soledad' ('Solitude'), by Spanish director Jaime Rosales, created a surprise in the Goya awards ceremony on February 3rd when it was given three prizes, including that of Best Feature-Film. For Pilar Cernuda, this film does not help Spanish cinema. "Spanish cinema is indeed of high quality and recognised as such beyond our borders. But it is tainted with hackneyed progressiveness which no doubt constitutes its main problem. Viewers get up and leave auditoriums showing Spanish films because they have had enough of hearing about the misery of the Civil War from the same old point of view, they can no longer stand scenarios about abuse, street violence, marginal groups, stereotypes, vulgar women or kooky civil servants who are obsessed with sex. There are of course superb films, but there are far more films that leave one with a bitter after taste, a feeling of ennui, or worse still, of shame."
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Spain has limited influence in Europe
Pilar Cernuda finds it quite logical that the mini-summit, held in London on January 29th, went ahead without Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. "Zapatero shouldn't carry any illusions: it is obvious London is not that interested in him because he only has a limited importance inside the EU. We have had time to see that over the past four years: he sometimes missed meetings that had an agenda directly involving Spanish citizens, and he said nothing of any interest during the summits held to decide the fate of Europe. (...) In any case, Zapatero ought to be laughing about not having made the trip to London. Brown invited Merkel, Sarkozy, Prodi and Barrso to exchange information about the current financial situation. And up until now, Zapatero has denied the existence of any such crisis. So we can understand why he hasn't been invited to any important meetings."
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