#Claudia Salas

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Elite Dynamics: Carla Rosón Caleruega & Rebeka Parrilla de Bormujo Ávalos

I think there’s . . . a girl who turns me on too.

Ah, congrats! Nadia, right?

No way. Worse. The marchioness.

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Elite (2018-2020)

no ensemble of actors has ever had me in a chokehold the way they did. the original cast of elite will always remain the best and superior era. they were simply more natural, more connected, more passionate, and brought everything they had to the table. all of them had perfect outstanding chemistry together that escaped the cameras and flourished off screen in real life. this talented group of people will forever hold a special place in my heart. they did not need the show, the show needed them. so here’s to remembering the real elite, and the times when a once great series could live up to its name ❤️

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the girls at danna’s concert (and 29th bday) in madrid, via georgina’s insta

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DANNA, GEORGINA, CLAUDIA & MINA

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Another teaser @isadomna

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CLAUDIA SALAS, MINA EL HAMMANI, & DANNA PAOLA via Georgina Amorós' Instagram Stories

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ÉLITE (2018–2024): Trashy, high-gloss Spanish soap opera about students at posh private high school Las Encinas, initially a mix of rich brats and social-climbing scholarship students, whose conflicts result in murders, near-fatalities, and mysterious disappearances: Each of the first five seasons is framed by a police investigation of the latest casualty, a gimmick that really only works in the first season (where it provides a degree of narrative structure and gravitas that would otherwise be lacking).

Even in its best moments, the show's relationship to reality is never strong, and it's sometimes rather witlessly hypocritical (for instance, the narrative is capable of recognizing the injustice of the school forcing Palestinian scholarship student Nadia (Mina El Hammani) to remove her hijab in class, but not enough to not indulge in its own array of islamophobic cliches in its depiction of Nadia's conservative working-class family). Nonetheless, the show gets by for a surprisingly long time on the strength of its cast and direction, buoyed by a welcome refusal to descend into self-mockery even when the plot leaves the rails. None of the male characters is especially endearing, with Itzan Escamilla (as scholarship student Samuel) becoming particularly insufferable and Miguel Bernardeau (more recently the lead on the disappointing 2024 ZORRO show) a little too convincing as rich dickhead Guzmán, but the girls are consistently more interesting, with Mina El Hammani (as Nadia), Ester Expósito (as morally compromised aristocratic rich bitch Carla), and Claudia Salas (as the salty Rebeka, whose mother is a drug dealer, and who ends up one of the show's most genuinely sympathetic characters) making the strongest impressions.

It's not until the sixth season, with all the original cast gone (several of them feet-first), that ÉLITE starts to feel like it's overstayed its welcome, with some flailing attempts to examine serious themes like abusive relationships tripping over the increasingly orgiastic celebration of wealth and privilege (any interest in characters who aren't filthy rich having departed with the last stragglers from the original cast). Although more visually stylish, it feels like it's become a different, much weaker show, and the writers seem to no longer grasp the distinction between "entertainingly messy bitches" and "grating assholes who are no fun to watch"; by the seventh season, there isn't a single character interesting or sympathetic enough to sustain the plot's frequent lurid detours into cloud cuckoo land. (It does at least have the decency to throw one of its most hateful recurring characters off a roof at the end, which I appreciated.)

The forthcoming eighth season will be the last, but Season 7 was already at least two too many, IME. CONTAINS LESBIANS? One of the boys from the early seasons has two moms, but while there are a surprising number of acknowledged mmf and mmm triads, it's not until the fourth season that there are really any wlw relationships among the principal characters, and they always remain distinctly secondary to the boys. VERDICT: More enjoyable than it has any right to be, at least for a while, but its watchability begins a marked decline after the fourth season, and the sixth and seventh seasons are no longer much fun even as trash TV.

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Cerdita (Piggy)

Movies watched in 2023

Cerdita (Piggy) (2022, Spain)

Director & Writer: Carlota Pereda

Mini-review:

I loved this way more than I thought I would. The representation probably isn't perfect, but it portrays fatphobia in a really harsh and unflinching light. Some people might find it too much, but I think Carlota Pereda made the right choice, showing how bullying and abuse can affect a person's psyche. Oh, and it was a fantastic move to show that fatphobia can happen at home as much as it happens outside. While there are strong doses of dark humor here and there, the movie is a pretty hard watch at times, so be warned.

All that being said, the movie's true power rests entirely on Laura Galán's bravura performance. She perfectly conveys her character's anxiety, confusion and terror. I couldn't help but relate to her, even as her situation escalates into something pretty crazy. Also, Carmen Machi's acting is as excellent as always, but I already expected that. Finally, I wanted to mention the cinematography and the sound design. The movie flawlessly captures the vibes of summer life in a small, rural-ish Spanish town, from the light to the background noises. So yeah, I will definitely keep an eye out for Pereda and Galán's future work.

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Las Pelotaris 1926

Las Pelotaris 1926 (Serie 2023) #ClaudiaSalas #VivianaSerna #MariaDeNati #ZuriaVega #CarlaGris #HectorKotsifakis Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- (März) Genre: Drama Hauptrollen: Claudia Salas, Viviana Serna, María de Nati, Zuria Vega, Carla Gris, Hector Kotsifakis, Gaizka Ugarte, Anastasia Russo, Iñigo Aranburu, Alejandra Onieva, Rachel Lascar, Miguel Garcés, Antonio Trejo Sánchez, Raúl Yuste, Fernanda Valencia, Daniel García … Serienbeschreibung: Die Geschichte von Chelo, Idoia und Itzi, drei Sportlerinnen, die in…

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Cayetana + Murder Weapons

Elite | 2x08 | 3x08

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the girls back together again ❤️ (madrid, summer ‘23)

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Piggy (2022)

Movie #1,038 • TWO FOR TUESDAY

Today's two-for-Tuesday theme is "recent movies from Spain made by female directors," eschewing the typical "the titles have a word in common" thing. After I watched this, I kept thinking of podcasting riffs forgetting that I'm no longer doing a podcast. But the thing about that is whenever I would do this — verbalize in my mind what I might like to say about a movie — I rarely ever recorded soon enough thereafter to make whatever point was on my mind. Horrible flawed system/brain I got here, folks.

There was something interesting here with the running of the bulls/her being called "Piggy" (one of the young bulls gets loose... pig vs. bull? something?? IDK) but I couldn't flush it out. As I wrote on me Letterboxd: "Turned out to be as gruesome as the movie poster but it took its time getting here. Left me feeling blank but I enjoyed it in spurts. Bullying is bad! Yes yes etc…" I think that 'bout sums it up. Slightly more than a 'meh' for me—narrowly avoiding the dreaded Lucy Line.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️¼

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'Maquíllame Otra Vez' | Tráiler oficial

Mira el tráiler de 'Maquíllame Otra Vez' con Paulina Gaitán, Regina Blandón e Ilse Salas.

Cinépolis Distribución presenta el tráiler oficial de Maquíllame Otra Vez, una comedia protagonizada por Paulina Gaitán, Regina Blandón e Ilse Salas. La película, que es el debut en dirección de Guillermo Calderón, responsable del guión de algunas películas de Pablo Larraín como Neruda, El Club y Ema, se estrenó en la más reciente edición de el Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia y llegará…

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GEORGINA AMORÓS, DANNA PAOLA, CLAUDIA SALAS, & MINA EL HAMMANI via Instagram Stories