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Fernando Trueba let ‘Artist and the Model’ ripen with age, as he has
Aug. 1, 2013
The idea for the film came to the ‘Belle Epoque’ filmmaker in the 1990s. He waited to make it until he was older.
Fernando Trueba’s sexy, bittersweet and contemplative comedy, “Belle Epoque” (at the Royal and Esquire), takes us back in time and place to an uncertain but hopeful moment of calm before the storm.
March 2, 1994
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Fernando Trueba’s sexy, bittersweet and contemplative 1994 comedy takes us back in time and place: early in 1931 Spain, an uncertain but hopeful moment of calm before the storm of the Spanish Civil War.
July 2, 1995
In the 66th Academy Awards’ pithiest acceptance speech, Spanish director Fernando Trueba, picking up a best foreign-language Oscar for his sly, seductive “Belle Epoque,” remarked that he “would like to believe in God so that I could thank him, but I just believe in Billy Wilder.
March 28, 1994
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Oscar winner Fernando Trueba and celebrated artist Javier Mariscal investigate a real-life musician’s disappearance in the animated “They Shot the Piano Player.”
Dec. 18, 2023
Fernando Trueba’s sexy and contemplative 1992 comedy takes us back in time and place: early 1931 Spain, an uncertain but hopeful moment of calm before the storm of the Spanish Civil War.
Dec. 24, 1995
Spanish writer-director Fernando Trueba’s “Two Much,” sad to say, isn’t nearly enough.
March 15, 1996
Director Fernando Trueba explores artistic appreciation and sexual allure in ‘The Artist and the Model.’
July 31, 2013
By turns sedate and breathless, the pitch-perfect 1950s newsreel footage that opens Fernando Trueba’s new comedy promises an intriguing mix of fiction and history.
Aug. 17, 2017