Beloved/Friend

Amic/amat

Spain

1999

87 Min

Color

1.85:1

Catalan

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Josep Maria Benet i Jornet

CAST Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montalà, Jordi Dauder, Ángels Sánchez, Tàtels Pérez, Jordi Andújar, Daniel Tlambors, Josep Clarà, Josep Mota

PROD DES Bel-Lo Torras, Joan Carles Ramón

MUSIC Carles Cases, Jesús Escosa

Berlinale (Panorama), Outfest (Features)

Synopsis

Jaume Clara discovers he is terminally ill. He develops a powerful attraction to David, one of his students. Meanwhile, one of Jaume’s oldest friends is Pere, whose daughter Alba is pregnant by David. The story is one of inheritances: of the letter on the nature of love that Jaume writes for David; of the baby that Alba is expecting, and of the relationship between Alba and her mother, in which they discuss Fanny’s life before she married Pere. –Inbaseline

Director

Ventura Pons

Ventura Pons Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [bənˈtuɾə ˈpɔns]) (born 25 July 1945, in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Catalan movie director.

After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. With eighteen feature films, sixteen of which were produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985, he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors.

His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years.

He began his movie career making comedies about local customs (The Vicary of Olot and What’s your bet, Mari Pili?, for example). Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó (What It’s All About), Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (Actresses, Amic/Amat), Sergi Belbel (Caresses, To Die… read more