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Isla bonita - Wikipedia

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Isla bonita
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Fernando Colomo
Screenplay by	Fernando Colomo Olivia Delcán Miguel A. Furones
Starring	Olivia Delcán Fernando Colomo Nuria Román Miguel Ángel Furones Lilian Caro Tim Bettermann Lluís Marqués
Cinematography	Alfonso Sanz
Edited by	María Lara
Music by	Fernando Furones
Production companies	Comba Films La Perifèrica Produccions
Distributed by	Surtsey Films
Release dates	21 September 2015 (2015-09-21) (Zinemaldia) 6 November 2015 (2015-11-06) (Spain)
Country	Spain
Languages	Spanish English Menorquin

Isla bonita (transl. The Pretty Island) is a 2015 Spanish drama film directed, co-written, and starred by Fernando Colomo. Its cast also features Olivia Delcán, Nuria Román, Miguel Ángel Furones, Lilian Caro, Tim Bettermann, and Lluís Marqués.

Plot

Miguel Ángel invites his friend Fer (a run down publicist) to Menorca to spend some time there. Once in the island, Fer acquaints with sculptor Nuria and her daughter Olivia, who is caught in between her current boyfriend and her ex, a local man.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Olivia Delcán as Olivia^[1]
Fernando Colomo as Fer^[2]
Nuria Román as Nuria^[1]
Miguel Ángel Furones as Miguel Ángel^[2]
Lilian Caro^[1]
Tim Bettermann^[1]
Lluís Marqués^[1]

Production

The screenplay was penned by Colomo together with Olivia Delcán and Miguel Ángel Furones.^[4]^[5] The film is a Comba Films and La Perifèrica Produccions production,^[6] and it had the support of the Illes Balears Film Commission.^[7] It was fully shot on location in the island of Menorca.^[7] It features dialogue in Spanish, English, and Menorquin,^[1] the Catalan dialect pertaining to the island.

Release

The film world premiered out of competition in the 'Zabaltegi' section of the 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival on 21 September 2015.^[3] Distributed by Surtsey Films,^[8] it was theatrically released in Spain on 6 November 2015.

Reception

Pere Vall of Fotogramas rated Isla bonita 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting its pleasant freshness and the play of Delcán and her boyfriends, also pointing out that the film, while flirting with Woody Allen and François Truffaut, still feel very much Colomo's.^[2]

Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the "minimal" yet "authentic and fresh" production 3½ stars, highlighting Colomo's onscreen comicity in his own film, in between "Moretti and Woody Allen", and "more of a loser than Louis C.K.", as the film's standout.^[8]

Jordi Batlle Caminal of La Vanguardia deemed the film to be "balsamic, refreshing and airy, as well as spontaneous".^[9]

Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, observing that the non-professional cast of actors and their improvised dialogues bestow the comedy with "an uncommon intimacy and freshness", with an observational brand of humor.^[1]

Accolades


Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2016	30th Goya Awards	Best New Actor	Fernando Colomo	Nominated	^[10]
2016	60th Sant Jordi Awards	Best Spanish Film		Won	^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Rodriguez, Rene (21 July 2016). "Falling in love in paradise in 'Isla Bonita'". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Vall, Pere (15 September 2015). "Isla bonita". Fotogramas. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ""Isla bonita" se estrena en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián". Menorca. 22 September 2015. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ "Isla bonita". San Sebastián International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ Jimeno, Diego (15 August 2021). "'Isla bonita', con Fernando Colomo, en 'Versión española'". Diez Minutos. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ "Isla Bonita". Cinespaña. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b "El Govern colabora en dos películas rodadas en Ibiza y Menorca". Noticias Mallorca. 29 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b Bermejo, Andrea G. (6 November 2015). "Isla bonita". Cinemanía. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022 – via 20minutos.es.
^ Batlle Caminal, Jordi (6 November 2015). "'Isla bonita': Menorca, el paraíso". Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ Meseguer, Astrid (8 February 2016). "Todos los ganadores de los Premios Goya 2016". La Vanguardia. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ "RNE entrega los 60º Premios Sant Jordi de Cinematografía". rtve.es. 11 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.

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Films directed	What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978) The Knight of the Dragon (1985) La vida alegre (1987) Going South Shopping (1989) Alegre ma non troppo (1994) The Stolen Years (1998) South from Granada (2003) Rivals (2008) Isla bonita (2015) The Tribe (2018) Polyamory for Dummies (2021)
Films written	The Things of Love (1989)

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