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The Year of Maria
Theatrical release poster
SpanishAño mariano
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • José Antonio Ortega
  • Karra Elejalde
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Produced byJuanjo Landa
Starring
CinematographyHans Burmann
Edited byPablo Blanco
Music byKike Suárez Alba
Production
company
Asegarce Zinema
Distributed byAurum Films
Release date
  • 11 August 2000 (2000-08-11)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

The Year of Maria (Spanish: Año mariano) is a 2000 Spanish black comedy film directed by Karra Elejalde and Fernando Guillén Cuervo, who also star in the film alongside Manuel Manquiña, Gloria Muñoz, and Sílvia Bel.

Plot

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Mariano, an alcoholic cassette salesman, crashes on a marijuana plantation being burned by Guardia Civil agents, so dazed and hallucinated by narcotics, he sees the Virgin Mary. With help from a middling showman (Tony Towers) he becomes a messianic figure in rural southern Spain.[1][2]

Cast

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Production

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The film was produced by Asegarce with the collaboration of TVE, Vía Digital [es], and ETB.[4] Shooting locations in the province of Almería included Cala Carbón (Níjar).[6]

Release

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Distributed by Aurum,[4] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 11 August 2000.[7] It was the second-largest grossing Spanish film at the 2000 domestic box-office after Common Wealth.[8]

Reception

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Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film (otherwise stylistically a baby brother to Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Airbag), to be "at worst sloppy and uncontrolled, at best nicely imaginative".[4]

Accolades

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Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2001 15th Goya Awards Best Special Effects Juan Ramón Molina, Alfonso Nieto Nominated [9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (16 November 2000). "Alucinados". El País.
  2. ^ Bernárdez, García & González 2008, p. 132.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Año mariano". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d e Holland, Jonathan (18 September 2000). "The Year of Maria". Variety.
  5. ^ "Cine en TV por Federico Marín Bellón". ABC. 28 April 2007.
  6. ^ "Níjar, el municipio con el plató de cine más natural de Andalucía". Diario de Almería. Grupo Joly. 25 March 2022.
  7. ^ "'Año mariano', la película española más taquillera del año". El Mundo.
  8. ^ Bernárdez, Asunción; García, Irene; González, Soraya (2008). Violencia de género en el cine español. Análisis de los años 1998 a 2002 y guía didáctica (PDF). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. p. 13. ISBN 978-84-7491-923-3.
  9. ^ "Año Mariano". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 3 June 2023.