To Russia with amor: Spanish cinema enters the Twilight zone
Selling abroad is now a life raft for Spanish films and teenage love story Tengo Ganas de Ti proves it's not just Almodóvar movies that can travel
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Russia is a secure beachhead for Hollywood at the moment, so it was a surprise to see a small Spanish film twanging The Amazing Spider-Man's web-strings there a few weeks ago. Tengo Ganas de Ti (I Want You) opened at No 2 behind Sony's reboot at the beginning of July, one of the most impressive showings ever in the country for a non-English-language film. An online marketing push for ab-festooned star Mario Casas and an introspective Twilighty pallor to the scenario – troubled hunk returns from love exile in London and has to decide on his true love – seemed to work their magic.
Tengo Ganas de Ti has taken $5.8m (£3.7m) in Russia – more than the first Twilight,...
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Russia is a secure beachhead for Hollywood at the moment, so it was a surprise to see a small Spanish film twanging The Amazing Spider-Man's web-strings there a few weeks ago. Tengo Ganas de Ti (I Want You) opened at No 2 behind Sony's reboot at the beginning of July, one of the most impressive showings ever in the country for a non-English-language film. An online marketing push for ab-festooned star Mario Casas and an introspective Twilighty pallor to the scenario – troubled hunk returns from love exile in London and has to decide on his true love – seemed to work their magic.
Tengo Ganas de Ti has taken $5.8m (£3.7m) in Russia – more than the first Twilight,...
- 8/7/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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