Iranian Cinema in Spain. The Reception in Specialized Journals and Press

Abstract

This study is an effort to analyse how Spanish cinephilia have received Iranian movies, which reached the commercial screens of Spain since their success on International film festivals. The interest in the Iranian Cinema in Spain arose not only out of their formal differences from the mainstream cinema but also from their status as Iranian cultural products, for being considered as culturally “other.” The visual style of directors like Kiarostami has been observed by the western coordinates in order to shed light on, and in some occasions to force, the influences by European film styles like Neorealism. As the resources of research and in order to approach to the cinephilia reactions, the points of view of critics and academics as well as opinions and news, which were reflected on press and on specialized magazines have been studied.