The Year of Maria
Theatrical release poster
SpanishAño mariano
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • José Antonio Ortega
  • Karra Elejalde
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Produced byJuanjo Landa
Starring
CinematographyHans Burmann
Edited byPablo Blanco
Music byKike Suárez Alba
Production
company
Asegarce Zinema
Distributed byAurum Films
Release date
  • 11 August 2000 (2000-08-11)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

The Year of Maria (Spanish: Año mariano) is a 2000 Spanish black comedy film directed by Karra Elejalde and Fernando Guillén Cuervo, who also star in the film alongside Manuel Manquiña, Gloria Muñoz, and Sílvia Bel.

Plot

Mariano, an alcoholic cassette salesman, crashes on a marijuana plantation being burned by Guardia Civil agents, so dazed and hallucinated by narcotics, he sees the Virgin Mary. With help from a middling showman (Tony Towers) he becomes a messianic figure in rural southern Spain.[1][2]

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Asegarce with the collaboration of TVE, Vía Digital, and ETB.[4] Shooting locations in the province of Almería included Cala Carbón (Níjar).[6]

Release

Distributed by Aurum,[4] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 11 August 2000.[7] It was the second-largest grossing Spanish film at the 2000 domestic box-office after Common Wealth.[8]

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film (otherwise stylistically a baby brother to Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Airbag), to be "at worst sloppy and uncontrolled, at best nicely imaginative".[4]

Accolades

Year Award CategoryNominee(s) ResultRef.
200115th Goya AwardsBest Special EffectsJuan Ramón Molina, Alfonso NietoNominated[9]

See also

References

  1. Fernández-Santos, Elsa (16 November 2000). "Alucinados". El País.
  2. Bernárdez, García & González 2008, p. 132.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Año mariano". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Holland, Jonathan (18 September 2000). "The Year of Maria". Variety.
  5. "Cine en TV por Federico Marín Bellón". ABC. 28 April 2007.
  6. "Níjar, el municipio con el plató de cine más natural de Andalucía". Diario de Almería. Grupo Joly. 25 March 2022.
  7. "'Año mariano', la película española más taquillera del año". El Mundo.
  8. Bernárdez, Asunción; García, Irene; González, Soraya (2008). Violencia de género en el cine español. Análisis de los años 1998 a 2002 y guía didáctica (PDF). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. p. 13. ISBN 978-84-7491-923-3.
  9. "Año Mariano". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
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