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| Spanish | Te estoy amando locamente |
| Directed by | Alejandro Marín |
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| Cinematography | Andreu Ortoll |
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| Distributed by | Filmax |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | €2.75 million[1] |
| Box office | €0.55 million[2] |
Love & Revolution (Spanish:Te estoy amando locamente,lit. 'I'm Loving You Madly')[3] is a 2023 Spanishhistoricalcomedy-drama film directed by Alejandro Marín (in his directorial debut feature) starringAna Wagener and Omar Banana alongsideAlba Flores.
Set in 1977Seville, at a timehomosexuality was a crime in Spain, against the backdrop of the struggle against the repressiveLaw on social dangerousness and rehabilitation, the plot follows Reme and her son Miguel (a wannabe singer and performer) who become acquainted with the budding AndalusianLGBTI movement.[4][5][6]
The plot is inspired by the genesis of theMovimiento Homosexual de Acción Revolucionaria ("Homosexual Movement for Revolutionary Action") led by trans activistMar Cambrollé.[4]Love & Revolution had British social comedy films such asBilly Elliot (2000) andPride (2014) as references.[9]
The film is an Escándalo Films,Escac Estudio, Zeta Cinema, Zeta Audiovisual, La Pepa Films and Te estoy amando AIE production. It was participated byRTVE,Movistar Plus+,Netflix,Canal Sur Radio y Televisión and Crea SGR. It also had backing and funding fromICAA, ICEC,ICO, Mogambo, andTriodos Bank.[10] Shooting locations includedBarcelona andSeville.[11]
Rigoberta Bandini composed the song "Yo solo quiero amor" for the film score.[12]
Distributed byFilmax,[6] the film was released theatrically on 6 July 2023 in 109 Spanish screens following a rather muted promotional campaign.[13] The film underperformed at the box office in the first two days, grossing €67,000.[14] After three weeks, it had grossed €274,415.[13]
Raquel Hernández Luján ofHobbyConsolas rated the film with 75 points ("good") highlighting the "luminous" character of the film, "featuring an encouraging message".[15]
Ricardo Rosado ofFotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting Banana's arrival to big screen as the best thing about the film.[16]
Miguel Ángel Romero ofCinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, underscoring it to be the Spanish version ofPride, making the LGTBI collective's struggle visible.[17]
Javier Ocaña ofEl País deemed the "thrilling melodrama" to be an "inspirational film, very well produced and even better acted, in which there is hardly a blur", otherwise noting a potentially surprising feature of the film being the "total absence of sex".[18]
The film appeared on a number of critics' top ten lists of the best Spanish films of 2023:
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | 29th Forqué Awards | Cinema and Education in Values | Nominated | [21] | |
2024 | 11th Feroz Awards | Best Comedy Film | Nominated | [22] | |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Film | La Dani | Won | |||
| Best Original Soundtrack | Nico Casal | Nominated | |||
| Best Trailer | Mikel Garmilla | Nominated | |||
| 3rd Carmen Awards | Best Film | Nominated | [23][24] | ||
| Best New Director | Alejandro Marín | Won | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro Marín, Carmen Garrido | Won | |||
| Best Supporting Actor | Jesús Carroza | Won | |||
| Best New Actor | Omar Banana | Nominated | |||
| La Dani | Nominated | ||||
| Best New Actress | Álex de la Croix | Nominated | |||
| Carmen Orellana | Nominated | ||||
| Best Production Supervision | Carmen Garrido | Won | |||
| Best Sound | Antuán Mejías, Fonsi Gil | Nominated | |||
| Best Makeup and Hairstyles | Carmela Martín | Won | |||
| 16th Gaudí Awards | Best New Director | Alejandro Marín | Nominated | [25] | |
| Best New Performance | La Dani | Nominated | |||
| Best Costume Design | Isis Velasco | Nominated | |||
| 38th Goya Awards | Best New Actor | La Dani | Nominated | [26] | |
| Omar Banana | Nominated | ||||
| Best New Director | Alejandro Marín | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro Marín, Carmen Garrido | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Song | "Yo solo quiero amor" by Rigoberta Bandini | Won | |||
| 11th Platino Awards | Best Ibero-American Comedy Film | Nominated | [27] | ||