Always Yours
Theatrical release poster
SpanishTuya siempre
Directed byManuel Lombardero
Screenplay by
  • Manuel Lombardero
  • Ignacio del Moral
Produced byPastora Delgado
Starring
CinematographyJosé Luis Alcaine
Edited byBernat Aragonés
Music by
  • Horacio Fumero
  • José Reinoso
Production
companies
  • Pastora Delgado PC
  • Films d'Ultramort
Distributed byAzeta Cinema
Release dates
  • 13 March 2007 (2007-03-13) (Málaga)
  • 27 April 2007 (2007-04-27) (Spain)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Always Yours (Spanish: Tuya siempre) is a 2007 Spanish neo-noir drama film directed by Manuel Lombardero. It stars Flora Martínez, Rubén Ochandiano, José Coronado, and Caroline Henderson.

Plot

The fiction follows Lola and her boyfriend Alfredo, a petty criminal. The former began working in a jazz club frequented by quaint individuals (including a forensic photographer, a young musician becoming blind, an alcoholic pianist, and a jazz singer) but the entry on the scene of mafioso Manuel Gay causes disruption.[1][2][3]

Cast

Production

The screenplay was penned by Manuel Lombardero alongside Ignacio del Moral.[2] The film was produced by Pastora Delgado PC and Films d'Ultramort, and it had the participation of TVE.[2][6]

Release

The film screened at the Málaga Film Festival in March 2007.[1][3] Distributed by Azeta Cinema,[2] it was theatrically released in Spain on 27 April 2007.[4]

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety considered that despite boasting a "pleasant jazz score", a clutch of "decent" performances, and coming with all the genre trimmings, "the script fails to whip them up into anything beyond an efficient exercise in style".[2]

Javier Ocaña of El País deemed Always Yours to be "a painful, somber film with a great sound and image design", featuring a "atmosphere, credibility and a formal design that is as risky as it is meritorious", but also pointed out at a flawed direction of actors, as each one of them performs in a different dramatic range.[7]

Accolades

Year Award CategoryNominee(s) ResultRef.
200710th Málaga Film FestivalBest Supporting ActorNancho NovoWon[8]
Best MusicJosé Reinoso, Horacio FumeroWon
Best MakeupGregorio RosWon
200822nd Goya AwardsBest SoundLicio Marcos de Oliveira, Carlos Fesser, David CallejaNominated[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "'Tuya siempre' mezcla drama y 'thriller' en BCN a ritmo de jazz". El Periódico de Catalunya. 14 March 2007.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Holland, Jonathan (10 April 2007). "Always Yours". Variety.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Mellado, Sergio (14 March 2007). "'Tuya siempre' retrata la atracción por lo siniestro". El País.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Tuya siempre". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  5. ↑ Pérez, Carmen (14 March 2007). "Coronado, mafioso en 'Tuya siempre'". Diario Sur. Grupo Vocento.
  6. 1 2 "Tuya siempre". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Ocaña, Javier (27 April 2007). "Olor a tugurio". El País.
  8. ↑ "'Bajo las estrellas', ganadora del X Festival de Cine Español de Málaga". Diario Sur. Grupo Vocento. 17 March 2007.
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