Velintonia 3 – Cinema Maldà

“Velintonia 3” / Spain: 2025 / Direction: Javier Vila / Starring: Antonio de la Torre, Ana Fernández, Mona Martínez, Manolo Solo / Documentary / 111 min / Original version in Spanish / Suitable for the public.

synopsis:
The memory of the poet lies in silence in number 3 of Velintonia. The house in which Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre lived, through which the greatest poet of Spanish poetry of the 20th century passed, is now abandoned and for sale. What was his home for more than half a century encloses within its walls the flourishing of the Generation of 27, with Federico García Lorca sitting at the piano, the elegance of Luis Cernuda and the wild embraces of Miguel Hernández; the committed voice of the Chilean Pablo Neruda and the wounds that the Civil War caused in the bodies and souls; the longing for freedom of women like Carmen Conde and the dreams of young poets in a Spain that was approaching modernity. But above all, there is the clear look of Aleixandre, the story of a life marked by fragile health and an irrepressible need to love. All the secrets that are the testimony of an era, and that remain there, trapped in a magical place. A chimera called Velintonia who sighs to forget her memories.

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