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Paz Vega’s Directorial Debut ‘Rita’ Re-Creates a Blissful, Then Blighted Childhood in 1984 Seville

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Write about what you know, the old adage runs. In “Rita,” her debut as a writer-director-producer, Spain’s Paz Vega has certainly taken that to heart.

Years before breaking out with 2001’s “Sex and Lucia,” then starring opposite Adam Sandler in 2004’s “Spanglish,” Vega grew up in Triana, a district of Seville, in Spain’s Andalusia.

Set in 1984 in an unpretentious part of Vega’s native city, “Rita” co-stars Paz, one of Spain’s best-known faces in international cinema, but it’s a literally self-effacing turn.

Although she plays Rita’s mother Mari, and she’s present in multiple scenes, her face is not seen until minute 14 of the film.

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