Albert Espinosa signs the script for the film, about a gang of five boys who live an unforgettable summer.
They say that nostalgia is (almost) always right-wing, but in these times in need of magic and mythology I don’t think it’s a bad thing to occasionally look back armed with the wisdom that distance brings. They do so, using a careful recreation and an inspired youth cast, Dani de la Torre and Albert Espinosa, in this portrait of a unique gang in rural Galicia in the eighties. ‘Live is Life’ is not so interested in the conflict and adventure as in capturing the power of the moment, the inner procession, the group dynamics of these kids with a consciousness of death, which distances it, for good, from the pyrotechnics, so often devoid of soul, from series like ‘Stranger Things’. And although here the quinquis are the fierce antagonists (another success), ‘Live is Life’ ends up rhyming in a shocking way with the sequence that closed the iconic ‘Navajeros’ (one of the best movies of the quinqui cinema): that extra poetry that arises from confronting pain and tenderness, anguish and joy, resignation and hope. Life and nothing else.
For that immense minority that prefers ‘Count on me’ to ‘The Goonies’
DATA SHEET
Address: Daniel of the Tower Distribution: Adrian Baena, Juan del Pozo, Raul del Pozo, David Rodriguez, Javier Casellas Original title: Live is Life Country: Spain Year: 2022 Release date: 03–06-2022 Gender: Drama Script: Albert Espinosa Duration: 109 min.
Synopsis: Summer 1985. Like every year, Rodri leaves Catalonia and returns to the Galician town of his parents to reunite with his gang. However, this year is different for him and his friends. Real world problems begin to creep into their lives threatening to tear them apart. Clinging to the friendship that unites them, the five friends plan to escape on the night of San Juan in search of a magical flower that, according to legend, grows on top of a mountain and can make wishes come true. Because his only wish now is to solve the problem of his friend in trouble and thus be able to continue together. An adventure that will make them grow through a fascinating path full of action, emotion and hope, and that will leave them in the memory forever of that summer when “Live is Life” was playing in the background.
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