Two films with very different plots that hit theaters in Spain are the proposals to see this month.
Champion
Dylan is a 13-year-old boy and captain of the soccer team, his passion shared with his best friend, Youssef. The announcement of a future competition fills them with joy and they begin to prepare, when Dylan suffers a serious injury.
Based on the life of Job Tichelman, co-writer of the film, who was born with a spinal cord malformation, Campeón is a hymn to friendship, perseverance, solidarity and an example of the educational value of soccer.
Champion
An uplifting and inspiring film for the whole family, it has been widely screened at festivals and has won a dozen awards.
The Holdovers
A cantankerous boarding school teacher must stay at the school over the Christmas vacations to look after a handful of students who have nowhere else to go. He soon forms a bond with a smart but damaged troublemaker and the school's head cook, a woman who has just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
One of this year's big surprises, Holdovers is an honest and mature story about adolescence, family and friendship, an ode to second chances and the important things in life.
Touching without falling into sentimentality, and with a sharp point of comedy, it is a thought-provoking dramedy through a story woven with care and mastery, with a neat script and performances that eat up the screen, led by the genius of Paul Giamatti, who makes a lonely and pathetic character into someone endearing, worthy of our love.
