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INTERVIEW WITH JAIME ROSALES, DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER OF BEAUTIFUL YOUTH
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The film arises out of Jaime Rosales' desire to get closer to young people in today's Spain. They face a future with limited opportunities, no matter how well-prepared they are. The director has focused on fairly stagnant young people who see such a black future that they have no drive to change anything and settle for adapting to their circumstances.
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today's Spain. 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 porno film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make.
Director's Biography
After receiving a degree in Business Economics from ESADE (Barcelona), his devotion to film was fostered when he won a scholarship in 1996 to study film at the prestigious International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Havana and then at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney. Since 2000 he has developed all his projects as a director with his production company Fresdeval Films. His films are about our inability to communicate with each other, the complexity of the family universe and violence that bursts unexpectedly into everyday life. A tireless explorer of the possibilities audiovisual media may offer, Jaime Rosales' films reflect the director's great interest in finding new expressive forms far from the habitual conventions of cinematographic language.
Filmography
The Hours of the Day. Cannes Festival 2003. Directors' Fortnight FIPRESCI International Critics' Award.
Solitary Fragments. Cannes Festival 2007. Un Certain Regard.
Bullet in the Head. San Sebastián Film Festival 2008. In Competition FIPRESCI International Critics' Award.
The Dream and The Silence. Cannes Festival 2012. Directors' Fortnight.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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