The Culture Department of the Cabildo de Lanzarote continues with its film programming once the Lanzarote Film Festival is over. The first screening corresponds to the film "Irina Palm", a 2006 film directed by filmmaker Sam Garbarski and starring singer Marianne Faithfull. The film, a Belgian, German, French and British co-production, will be screened at the Cine Buñuel in El Almacén on April 9 and 10, at 9:00 p.m.
Coming from the world of advertising, where he was the director of an agency before filming his own commercials, with which he won numerous awards, this is the second feature film in Sam Garbarski's career. The first, "Le tango des Rashevski" won important awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and before that Garbaski made some short films.
"Irina Palm" tells the story of Maggie, a middle-aged woman who seeks to raise money for the medical treatment that one of her grandchildren needs. Walking through London, she sees a sign that says hostess wanted and Maggie, without knowing it, ends up working in a sex shop. When she realizes it, she is surprised, but decides to go ahead because she needs the money.
Although she is shy and does not feel comfortable at work, she ends up making good friends with one of her co-workers and with the boss of the place, the womanizing and tough Miki, who softens before her.
He ends up creating a character for her and transforms her into the suggestive and in-demand Irina Palm. The problem for Maggie is that her gossipy neighbors begin to investigate her occupation and the protagonist, played by a sober Marianne Faithfull, begins to see the reality of the double and provincial morality of her society. But hope opens again before her, as she begins to glimpse something more than the unconditional love of her family.
