It echoes the central relationship in "Sentimental Value," though this one has serious fun with the filmmaking process. In the opening scene, Esteban and Emilia meet for lunch at a restaurant in ...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's "The Beloved" ("El ser querido"), which world premieres in Cannes competition on May 16, begins in a plush Madrid restaurant. The scene lasts 20 minutes. In it, a world-famous film ...

Let’s get the somewhat silly, broadly true yet also ultimately surface-level point of comparison out of the way first: if “Sentimental Value” had a chaotic evil twin, it would be Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's industry drama comes very soon after "Sentimental Value," bringing many of the same themes to the story of an oppressive filmmaker who casts his estranged daughter in his comeback ...

Logline: The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez (Javier Bardem) is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia ...

Constantly brewing family tensions take the forefront in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved” (“El Ser Querido”), successfully translating the strained central relationships to the audience, but failing ...