Life and Colour

Life and Colour is a 2005 Spanish film written and directed by in his feature length directorial debut. Its cast features Junio Valverde, Silvia Abascal, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, and Joan Dalmau, among others.

Plot

Spain, 1975. 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.

Release

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

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".