Always Yours (film)
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- Manuel Lombardero
- Ignacio del Moral
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| Spanish | Tuya siempre |
| Directed by | Manuel Lombardero |
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| Produced by | Pastora Delgado |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
| Edited by | Bernat Aragonés |
| Music by |
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| Distributed by | Azeta Cinema |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
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.
The fiction follows Lola and her boyfriend Alfredo, a petty criminal. The former begins working in a jazz club frequented by quaint individuals (including a forensic photographer, a young musician going blind, an alcoholic pianist, and a jazz singer) but the entry on the scene of mafioso Manuel Gay causes disruption.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Flora Martínez as Lola[4]
- Rubén Ochandiano as Alfredo[4]
- José Coronado as Manuel Gay[5]
- Caroline Henderson as Gloria Cole[4]
- Nancho Novo as Horacio[3]
- Andrés Gertrúdix as César[3]
- Raynald Colom as Nen[3]
Production
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]