The February premieres arrive full of news with films of all genres, both national and international, fresh from the cinema that will be added to the Movistar Plus+ television offering. Therefore, if you have contracted a fiber plus mobile plus television rate with the Spanish company, you will be able to enjoy a large number of titles, and many of them candidates for the Goya Awards, coinciding with the event that is being held this month.
At Movistar Plus+ you will find a high-quality repertoire this month of February, since it has released a statement in which it states that it will offer one premiere a day and that it will include in its catalog full of films candidates for the Goya Awards for this year, coinciding with its 38th edition which will be held on Saturday, February 10. Here you will find all kinds of movie genres, from dramas, horror, action and a touch of humor.
Spanish cinema representing the Goyas
Firstly, on Friday, February 2, it will arrive on Movistar Plus+ Chinas, with four Goya nominations, including best leading actress and best new actress, inspired by EchevarrÃa’s real experiences with an Asian girl and the conversations he had with her in the his parents’ bazaar.
Consequently we come across La ternura, which will be released on the 4th of this month, with nominations for best makeup and hairstyling. This period romantic comedy will be destined to a struggle of the sexes that will consist of avoiding the arranged wedding of Queen Esmeralda’s daughters.
They Shot the Pianist is the next day’s premiere, an animated film that is nominated for best film at the Oscars in this category. This feature film is about the life of a promising Brazilian musician, Tenório Jr., very promising, who disappeared without a trace after leaving his hotel in Buenos Aires.
We move on to O Corno, with a setting in Galicia at the beginning of the 70s, which can be viewed from Tuesday, February 6. It is a rural drama that talks about motherhood and female solidarity.
Next, Alma viva will be added on February 7. With a Goya nomination for the best Ibero-American film, it is “a love letter to a matriarch, a film that explores the power of myth, suggestion and nature,” as its director relates.
Afterwards, we will have the blue operator The Other Way, winner of the award for best animated film at the Sitges Festival. This film, which premieres on February 7, for adults is set in a near future in which everything is square and where humans strive to eliminate their roundness in order to reach the Moon, the paradise that awaits them.
Closing Your Eyes was received with a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and is nominated for 11 Goya Awards. This story includes numerous allusions to cinema and literature, as well as Erice’s self-references to her filmography. Close your eyes will arrive on February 8.
The next day we will have on the platform of the blue operator Saben That, a biography of the comedian Eugenio directed by David Trueba, narrating a romantic drama punctuated by the humor of his jokes.
This excessive ambition lands on February 11, a documentary by the famous singer “El Madrileño” C Tangana, who faces the challenge of creating the most ambitious tour of his career.
Finally, we have Mamacruz on the international premiere schedule, inspired by my mother, whom I always saw as that, but never as a woman,” explains the director. Mamacruz marks the final touch to the Movistar Plus+ premieres, arriving on February 28.
International premieres
International films are well loaded. We start with Retribution, a film starring Liam Neeson that arrives on February 16 and is a remake of Dani de la Torre’s Spanish film The Unknown.
Bears Do Not Exist is the title by Jafar Panahi that appears on Monday the 19th of this month, where two parallel love stories come together in which the couples’ desires are frustrated by borders.
The crime thriller The Departed premieres on February 21, which tells of the brutality and impunity with which the DeMeo gang acted.
Silent Night will join the catalog on February 23 with a hyper-violent action proposal in which there will be no shortage of score-settling and in which a father will put an end to those responsible for his son’s death after being caught in a crossfire between street gangs.
Ending the month, Insidious: The Red Door joins on February 25, overflowing with memories of spooky events that took place in the first two installments of the saga. The story takes place nine years later and will delight us with its characteristic touches of terror and scares.
