SADNESS

TRISTESSE

By Emilio RUIZ BARRACHINA

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Drama - Completed 2020

2020, City of Oviedo ( Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, north of Spain). Juan Bravo is a filmaker in his 60. After a carrier full of ups and downs, specially after the flop of his last movie ( a controversial and violent version of Jesus Christ), he lives in semi-retirement in the capital of Asturais trying to find a reason to keep alive, spending his days lost in his remembers of childhood and his dreams of youth. During a party made by his close friend producer Jacinto to celebrate the success of his last project, this one offers Juan a new chance to come back for directing a further movie for him despite the financial troubles and the production. The offer makes Juan question himself if accept it despite his ennemies or retiring definitively. Through his experiences and his memories tha capacity of humaniy for hatred, Juan travels the city of Olviedo in serach of himself and the same time that he analiyzes his own life and the importance to be alive, looking for inspiration. Accompanied bu Chopin's piece "Tristesse" throughout the film, Juan learns about the need of the artist to create and the inevitable fall on disgrace of the maturity, addressing about disloyalty, hatred or decadence living in addition bizarre and surrealist situations on his daily life while he has a flirtation with death embodied in the character of a writter. A movie with a city than protagonist as the own Juan Bravo.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Emilio RUIZ BARRACHINA
    • Producer(s)
    • Emilio RUIZ BARRACHINA (Hemisphere Films )
    • Synopsis
    • 2020, City of Oviedo ( Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, north of Spain). Juan Bravo is a filmaker in his 60. After a carrier full of ups and downs, specially after the flop of his last movie ( a controversial and violent version of Jesus Christ), he lives in semi-retirement in the capital of Asturais trying to find a reason to keep alive, spending his days lost in his remembers of childhood and his dreams of youth. During a party made by his close friend producer Jacinto to celebrate the success of his last project, this one offers Juan a new chance to come back for directing a further movie for him despite the financial troubles and the production. The offer makes Juan question himself if accept it despite his ennemies or retiring definitively. Through his experiences and his memories tha capacity of humaniy for hatred, Juan travels the city of Olviedo in serach of himself and the same time that he analiyzes his own life and the importance to be alive, looking for inspiration. Accompanied bu Chopin's piece "Tristesse" throughout the film, Juan learns about the need of the artist to create and the inevitable fall on disgrace of the maturity, addressing about disloyalty, hatred or decadence living in addition bizarre and surrealist situations on his daily life while he has a flirtation with death embodied in the character of a writter. A movie with a city than protagonist as the own Juan Bravo.