Director: | Paco Arango |
Screenplay: | Paco Arango |
Country: | Spain |
Cinematography: | Carlos Suárez |
Editing: | Teresa Font |
Music: | Nathan Wang |
Studio: | Sonrisas que Hacen Magia Producciones AIE |
Distributor: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Language: | Spanish |
Maktub is a 2011 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by (in his directorial debut feature). Its cast features Diego Peretti, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Goya Toledo, Andoni Hernández, Laura Esquivel, and Jorge Garcia, among others.
A couple in marital crisis formed by Manolo and Beatriz meet Antonio, a Canarian boy with cancer full of zest for life, thereby changing Manolo's life forever.
The film is a Sonrisas que Hacen Magia Producciones AIE production, with the collaboration of Antena 3.[1] Shooting locations included El Guincho (Garachico).[2]
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 16 December 2011.[3]
of El País wrote that "the worst thing about 'Maktub' is not only its aggressive combination of television aesthetics and sentimentality" "but its thinly disguised status as promotional fiction".[4]
Irene Crespo of Cinemanía rated the film 2 out of 5 stars deeming it to be a "family fable crammed with carols and faith".[5]
|-| align = "center" rowspan = "3" | 2012 || rowspan = "3" | 26th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Paco Arango || || rowspan = "3" | [6] |-| Best Supporting Actress || Goya Toledo || |-| Best Original Song || "Nuestra playa eres tú" by Jorge Pérez Quintero, Borja Jiménez Mérida, Patricio Martín Díaz || |-| align = "center" rowspan = "3" | 2013 || rowspan = "3" | 22nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards || rowspan = "2" | Best Film Actress in a Minor Role || Amparo Baró || || rowspan = "3" | [7] [8] |-| Goya Toledo || |-| Best New Actor || Andoni Hernández || |}