Un drama sobre la violencia vicaria y la película del síndrome de Tourette de Robert Aramayo

April 11, 2026·32 min·2 clips

A 12-year-old girl must visit her father at a family meeting point after he was sentenced for gender violence.

1. El Cine en la SER, hosted by Pepa Blanes, reviews new theatrical releases and streaming premieres in Spain for the current week. 2. Host Pepa Blanes leads the episode, joined by film critics including Elio Castro, Leo Castro, José Manuel Romero, Lucía Bermúdez and Danny Garran covering film and television. 3. The episode's core hook is the theatrical premiere of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Quentin Tarantino's original 275-minute uncut version blocked by Miramax under the Weinstein brothers in 2003. 4. Tarantino originally conceived Kill Bill as a single four-hour film, paying tribute to spaghetti westerns, 1970s exploitation cinema, Chinese kung fu films and Japanese samurai movies. 5. Miramax forced the split into two parts; Volume 1 was released in 2003 followed by Volume 2 just six months later; the full version now screens in 35mm and 70mm formats. 6. Uma Thurman's character, known as the Black Mamba, wearing Onitsuka Tiger shoes, is described as 'an icon of modern cinema' in the review. 7. The episode notes that the title of Chapter 2, 'The Bloodthirsty Girlfriend,' shares its name with a 1969 Spanish film by Vicente Aranda that Tarantino owned and did not initially know was Spanish. 8. Julia de Paz's second film, La Buena Hija, follows a 12-year-old girl (played by Kiara Arancibia) forced by a judge's order to visit her father, sentenced for domestic violence, at supervised family meeting points. 9. The cast includes Janet Novas as the mother, Petra Martínez as the grandmother, and Julián Villagrán as the abuser, a modern painter whose daughter idolizes him. 10. De Paz drew on interviews with women who survived domestic violence in childhood, noting daughters often reject the mother's femininity because they associate it with victimhood. 11. The film references Itziar Bollaín's 2003 landmark Te doy mis ojos as a predecessor, and La Buena Hija similarly chose a luminous visual style, citing Lukas Dhont's Close as an influence. 12. Incontrolable, starring Robert Aramayo, is a biopic of John Davidson, a Scottish Tourette syndrome activist; the film won three BAFTAs including Best Actor for Aramayo. 13. The director debuting in the biopic genre worked daily with Aramayo to keep the tone neither exaggerated, too dark, nor too comic, aiming for 'truth and honesty.' 14. Only around 20% of people with Tourette syndrome use involuntary profanity, a misconception the film addresses directly. 15. Christian Petzold's Espejos Nº3, distributed by Filmin, is a mysterious drama starring Paula Beer as a music student who survives a car accident that kills her boyfriend and is taken in by a strange family. 16. The documentary The Designer is Dead covers fashion designer Miguel Adrober, tracing his rise in the New York fashion scene to his disappearance after the controversial 'Utopía' show, using previously unseen archive material. 17. On television, Hacks' fifth and final season on HBO Max reunites the comedy duo of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder), returning to Las Vegas; the show has won twelve Emmy Awards. 18. The Boys ends its run with a finale season focusing on ideological superhero warfare, social media disinformation and AI, described as more politically resonant than ever. 19. Fans of Spanish and international cinema willing to read a mix of film criticism and cultural analysis in a radio format will find the most value. 20. Listeners seeking single-film deep dives or English-only content may find the multi-film roundup format and mixed-language delivery less engaging.

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