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The Red Squirrel

La ardilla roja

Spain

1993

114 Min
Color
1.66:1
German, Spanish
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DIR Julio Medem

EXEC Fernando de Garcillán

SCR Julio Medem

DP Gonzalo F. Berridi

CAST Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, María Barranco, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Gracia, Elena Irureta, Gustavo Salmerón

ED María Elena Sáinz de Rozas

MUSIC Alberto Iglesias, Txetxo Bengoetxea

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)

Synopsis

Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while… —FLiFF

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Julio Medem

Julio Médem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish Basque writer and film director. He was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father’s Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas (’Cows’) for which he won a Goya Award.

After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Sex and Lucia, where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style… read more

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MrDickPump

5Feb11

Completamente mesmerizante, no su mejor obra, ni la cinemtaografía, pero un espacio especial, para desarrollar personajes muy reales, tratando de escapar de varias situaciones en un campo de ardillas...

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