El Planeta is a dark comedy-drama movie that follows a mother-daughter duo navigating financial struggles and social expectations in a small Spanish town. Directed by and starring Amalia Ulman, the ...

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The director, writer, producer, and star of the Sundance 2021 hit tells IndieWire about her debut feature, the droll tale of mother-daughter con artists starring Ulman's own mom. “El Planeta” is a ...

How do you make a comedy about living in near poverty during a crippling recession? Amalia Ulman has done just that with one of the year’s breakout debut features, El Planeta, which depicts with sly ...

Loosely inspired by the true story of mother and daughter grifters who bilked various merchants in the coastal city of Gijón while one of the worst economic crises in Spain crippled the country (it ...

In Amalia Ulman's peculiar but poignant debut feature, the director casts herself opposite her own mother with surprising success. Holed up in a cold, poky apartment in the faded Spanish coastal town ...

Amalia Ulman's droll first feature 'El Planeta' stars the writer-director opposite her real-life mother as an impoverished pair shrugging off destitution in a post-financial crisis town on the Spanish ...

In this dry Spanish comedy, a mother and daughter commit to grifting as a full-time job. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

Among the films in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s virtual Sundance is the darkly comic “El Planeta,” the debut feature of Spanish-Argentine artist Amalia Ulman, who has worked in ...