Simple as well as moving film about an enjoyable family , including comedy , drama , emotion , sensitivity , a nice group of actors who worked extremely well together , along with colorful cinematography by Núria Roldos , stirring musical score by Arnau Ballester and compellingly directed by Maria Ripoll . Heartfelt tale dealing with a retired , good-natured academic professor named Emilio (Oscar Martínez) attempts to find the love of his childhood , Margarita , after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Then Emilio along with his family (his daughter Inma Cuesta as Julia , Nacho López as husband Felipe and granddaughter Mafalda Carbonel , the latter in real life daughter of actor Pablo Carbonel) go to Pamplona , Navarra , to meet Margarita after a large number of years with no relation with her . Along the way , the good-tempered grandfather suffers a temporal memory loss , forgetting elemental happenings and past records.
Set in 2018, City of Valencia , it is a dramedy (drama and comedy) concerning sensitive relationships , good feeling , emotion and moving scenes , including awesome interpretations with outcast roles were pretty well developed . As the touching plot becomes extremely affecting , containing an agreeable message , remembering the true meaning of our existence and the things that actually matter in the troublesome life . Here stands out the charming relationship between the grandfather and his granddaughter, with full of sensibility and attractiveness . Nevertheless , the film results to be sometimes deeply sad , due to the progression of the illness that causes depression, oblivion and forgetfulness . The picture gives an interesting point of sight of the Alzheimer's hopeless sickness , dealing with its unsettling progresiveness and teaching how to deal the people is suffering it .
The motion picture was professionally directed by Maria Ripoll . Maria Ripoll was born in 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia , Spain and considered to be one of the best Spanish female filmmakers . She is an expert director and assistant director , being especially known for the successful "Your Life in 65" (2006) , ¨Tortilla Soup¨ (2001) , ¨Lluvia En Zapatos¨ or ¨The Man with Rain in His Shoes¨ (1998) and ¨Rastres de Sàndal¨ (2014). Maria has directed known international stars , such as : Penélope Cruz , Lena Headey , Héctor Helizondo , Leonardo Sbaraglia , Tchéky Karyo , Jacqueline Obradors , Elizabeth Peña , Douglas Henshall , Mark Strong , among others . She also made a thriller that failed at box office titled ¨Utopia¨ with Najwa Nimri , José Garcia , Emma Vilarasau and Fele Martínez . And this ¨Vivir dos veces¨ (2019) that has got several nominations and prizes , such as : Nominee ASECAN Award Best Lead Actress Inma Cuesta ,Best Spanish Film . José María Forqué Awards 2020 Nominee José María Forqué Award Values Education Alamar Cinena 161 Convoy Films Plural - Jempsa . Premis de l'Audiovisual Valencià/Premios del Audiovisual Valenciano 2019 Winner AVAV Best Original Score Arnau Bataller (Original Music Soundtrack) , Simon Smith , (additional music) , Best Supporting Actress Mafalda Carbonell , Best Costume Design Cristina Rodríguez , Best Screenplay María Mínguez , Best Actor Óscar Martínez , Best Fiction Feature Maria Ripoll , Alamar Cinena 161 , Nominee AVAV Best Supporting Actor Nacho López , Best Actress Inma Cuesta , Best Cinematography Núria Roldos.
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7.2Plot summary
2018, City of Valencia (east to Spain). Emilio is a retired academic teacher, widow five years ago of his wife Carmen, who lives the days in a comfortable routine eating in the same bar and solving magic squares in the pastimes until that one day he has difficult to complete the square and confuses the streets to back home. Going to the hospital for a routine medical check, he is diagnosed with the first stage of the Alzheimer's disease, which eventually will delete all his mind and remembers. Just when he leaves the hospital Emilio meets by chance with Julia, his stranded daughter, who works as medical commercial. Noticing about the disease, Julia invites Emilio to a family lunch with his dysfunctional family composed by her husband and his son-in-law Felipe, who tries to be an Internet motivational coach after he was fired of his previous job, and his lame granddaughter Blanca, a 11 years old child as streetwiser as expert in the cell phones and social networks, to consider options when the disease is advanced, being despised by Emilio. Man of the 20th century living without TV and totally unfamiliar to Internet, a visit of Blanca to Emilio's house put him on the track of Margarita, his lost youth love which he met being child but he left go to follow his studies. The same day that Blanca discovers his father being unfaithful with another woman when she was entering in the school, Blanca catches Emilio nearly to travel driving his car to Navarra (north to Spain) for meeting Margarita, and blackmails him to go together to meet her. But in a gas station Emilio suffers a temporal memory loss forgetting about Blanca, making that the gas station attendant calls the police. Forcing Julia and Felipe to go there, Emilio tells Julia the reason of the travel. Reluctant about it after to know the feelings of him about her deceased mother and Margarita, Julia changes of idea after a bitter talking with Blanca where Julia is reported about Felipe's affair. It causes that the four move to Navarra for finding Margarita, in a travel where they not only will have the chance to connect as a family again, but to remember the true meaning of life and the things that really matter.
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A sensitive , touching film about an attractive family and Alzheimer illness
Very funny but sad
A sad story of the impact of dementia on a family. Oscar Martinez and Inma Cuesta are brilliant.
Touching story with a lot of heart
This film had a lot of heart and was an easy watch. It follows a man with Alzheimer's trying to track down and locate his first love, before he loses those memories along with everything else.
It made me laugh out loud in parts, and had a feel-good vibe about it, with well-rounded characters. It meandered at times, and while I occasionally found my interest waning, I felt invested enough with the characters to persist. The young Mafalda Carbonell (Blanca) had excellent chemistry with Oscar Martinez (as Emilio) and together they provided many of the laughs and touching moments.
There are numerous tear-jerker moments - particularly towards the end as things get tied together nicely. Really heartwarming and well acted. It's not groundbreaking, but I definitely recommend it to those after a decent foreign language film.
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