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Life and Colour

2005 Spanish film


Life and Colour (Spanish: Vida y color) is a 2005 Spanish film written and directed by Santiago Tabernero [es] in his feature length directorial debut.[1] Its cast features Junio Valverde, Silvia Abascal, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, and Joan Dalmau, among others.

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Plot

Spain, 1975.[1] Fede, a fifteen-year-old boy, is getting conscious of his environment little by little: his sister Begoña, unsatisfied with her imminent wedding; his grandfather, who stops dealing with his best friend after the Spanish Civil War; his friend Ramona, a girl with Down syndrome who was raped by her father, a young man who works with his father.

Cast

Release

The film was presented at the 50th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in October 2005.[6] Distributed by Alta Classics,[5] it was theatrically released in Spain on 5 January 2006.[2]

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "powerful, haunting and finely observed debut about life in a rural Spanish village during the last months of General Franco's life".[5]

Accolades

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See also


References

  1. "Tabernero abre el ciclo de cine en Actual 2006 con el pre-estreno de su "opera prima" 'Vida y color'". Europa Press. 2 January 2006.
  2. Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "Vida y color". Fotogramas.
  3. Jiménez Acevedo, Luis Alberto (2014). La discapacidad en el cine en 363 películas (PDF). Fundación ONCE. p. 36. ISBN 978-84-88934-32-1.
  4. Holland, Jonathan (7 March 2006). "Life and Color". Variety.

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