Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetarian. He loves meat. Many things separate them, but he moves into her apartment.
Writing
Trueba's debut script already knows voice is everything
Acting
Ladoore's desperate charm vs. Molina's unbothered energy
Production
Opera neighborhood as character—Madrid waking from Franco
Director
Fernando Trueba
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1980, five years after Franco's death—this is Madrid experimenting with freedom before La Movida fully exploded. The hesitancy IS the point.
Trueba was 27 directing this, basically playing himself as Matías—the failed novelist who became a filmmaker instead.
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