Maria Delgado

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Ben Walters |Kate Stables |Sophie Monks Kaufman |Maria Delgado

“We need murders,” muses Abbé Grisolles (Jacques Develay) toward the end of Misericordia. Grisolles keeps his beady eye trained on the various members of his flock in Saint-Martial, a small, rundown village in the Massif Central, the southern French highland district that generally serves as the backdrop for the films of Alain Guiraudie. We need murders, Grisolles proposes, because they offer opportunities for humility, compassion and mercy (in Latin: misericordia).

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Kate Stables |Ben Walters |Sophie Monks Kaufman |Maria Delgado

“You’re the actor. The best actor in the world” Vito Genovese’s estranged wife (an unruly Kathrine Narducci) bawls across the courtroom at her vicious gangster husband. Since he’s played by Robert de Niro, busily performing here as both Vito and his crime capo nemesis Frank Costello, there’s a sharp, knowing bark of audience laughter.

Dec 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Maria Delgado

Marisa Paredes, who has died at the age of 78, oozed old school Hollywood glamour. She had verve, style and a veritable sense of mischief. Her presence and poise were deployed to compelling effect by Pedro Almodóvar in a series of films that cemented her international profile as an actor with a range spanning both the epic and the intimate. Born into a working-class family in Madrid’s central Plaza de Santa Ana, she taught herself to read using a neighbour’s comic books.

Mar 25, 2024 | thetheatretimes.com | Maria Delgado

There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play, and Arnold Schönberg’s Erwartung (1924) with a new piece cowritten by director Christof Loy and Almodóvar regular, the actress Rossy de Palma.

Mar 25, 2024 | thetheatretimes.com | Maria Delgado

The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sharp observations of a family falling apart as resentment, frustration and containment take hold has never felt more pertinent or timely.