Jaime Rosales : 2014
Beautiful Youth
Natalia and Carlos, both in their early twenties, are in love and struggling to survive in today's Spain. Natalia is unemployed and kills the hours of the day sleeping and stealing whatever she happens to fancy from the department stores. Carlos works in removals and collects debris, thus managing to earn the odd euro from time to time. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they'd like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porn film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make. Jaime Rosales's fifth feature explores the despondency and disenchantment suffered by so many young people today in Spain, above whom hang the shadows of apathy, defeat and the search for possible solutions through emigration. The film received the Ecumenical Jury's Special Mention when it premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2014.
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