Etiqueta: Existential crisis
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What I know about us (Lo que sé de nosotros)
Politics is a dead end. There are only a few weeks left until the elections in the Basque Country take place. Arturo, the press officer of a young political party, couldn't be worse off. His girlfriend has just left him for being “too immature”, and their party's candidate, Lara Rico, has disappeared. Lara left…
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The unfaithful skin (La piel infiel)
Madame Bovary 2.0 Emma is just like many other 35-year-old women; she has a job that she doesn't particularly enjoy, but it lets her lead a comfortable life in the city, and she's in a relationship where she feels content. She doesn't have any children, nor she is married, and although things seem idyllic,…
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In the End, Monsters Always Win (Al final siempre ganan los monstruos) (Film)
The misfits, the weird ones, and the ones who went astray. This is the story of Juanillo, “The Cockroach”, Lolo, Jony, Vanessa, and a few others. They’re a group of thirty-somethings with dyed hair and who listen to music that’s too loud, who drink beer and way too much junk food. They are…
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Don’t think about the pink elephant (No pienses en un elefante rosa)
When planning leads to the unexpected. Aurora is a woman in her early thirties, a civil servant at the city council, who has just broken up with her boyfriend after a ten-year relationship, right after they had signed a mortgage together. Suddenly, Aurora appears to have the seemingly perfect life of a young…
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It’s Weird that My Name Is Federico (Qué raro que me llame Federico)
Two voices united in pain, those of a mother and her son. Belén is an editor in Madrid who dreams of being a mother but, despite many attempts, has not been able to get pregnant and decides to travel to Colombia to adopt a child; Freddy, whom she will name Federico, and for whom…
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The Psychodrome (Psicódromo)
He lost everything he had, including his identity, only to find it again on the street. Eliseo Fainzilber is a retired psychoanalyst who becomes homeless after his wife Martina kicks him out of the house. Eliseo was deeply dependent on Martina in every aspect of his life: he lived in her house and…
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Fleeing From Addiction (Huyendo del vicio)
Fleeing the city to escape bad habits… to arrive in a village and find yourself in the greatest temptation. Maria is a 23-year-old girl with a very peculiar character: she is direct, sincere, charismatic, funny and her life revolves around addiction (nights of debauchery, compulsive shopping, excessively active sex life…). Tired of living…
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I Stopped Uttering Your Name: The Forbidden Life of Carmen Díez de Rivera (Dejé de pronunciar tu nombre: La vida prohibida de Carmen Díez de Rivera)
The muse of the Spanish transition to democracy. The beautiful Carmen Díez de Rivera was a cultured and intelligent woman like few others. Nicknamed "the muse of the Spanish Transition to democracy" by Francisco Umbral, she was the illegitimate daughter of the politician Serrano Suñer and the aristocrat Sonsoles de Icaza, a…
