El camino de los ingleses (2006)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Antonio Banderas

Writers:

Antonio Soler (adaptation)
Antonio Soler (novel)

Release Date:

1 December 2006 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s. |

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Female Masturbation | Fascism | Voyeurism | Female Nudity

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Alberto Amarilla	...	Miguelito
María Ruiz	...	Luli
Félix Gómez	...	Paco Frontón
Raúl Arévalo	...	Babirusa
Fran Perea	...	El Garganta
Marta Nieto	...	La Cuerpo
Mario Casas	...	Moratalla
Antonio Garrido	...	Cardona
Antonio Zafra	...	Enano Martínez
Berta de la Dehesa	...	La Gorda de la Cala
Victor Perez	...	González Cortés
Cuca Escribano	...	Fina
Lucio Romero	...	Abuelo
Romay Rodríguez
Pepa Aniorte	...	Fonseca

Also Known As:

Summer Rain (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)

Runtime:

USA:118 min (Sundance Film Festival)

Country:

Spain | UK

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:R21 (cut) | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Ciudad de la Luz, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Green Moon Productions

a lot of good music

i was thinking that maybe Antonio Banderas has spent a career in commercial movies to be able later on to develop his own projects. who knows maybe it's like this. yes, this movie was not made by an fine director, the pace is uneven, there are a lot of scene that could have been removed improving, not hurting , the movie. but the movie is not entirely pointless, it seems to have a sincere desire to say something to the viewer, especially with a very well mixed balance of music and images, those seem to be the most powerful moments of the movies. the plot , the story is to a certain degree irrelevant , this is a movie of powerful images, of details, of obsessions. The love scenes are a very small part of the movie, yet they are incredible details, nearly as in a soft porn movie, but this is not a limitation of this movie, but one of features. the bodies of the characters are explained in details, a flat stomach, a leg, a hand, a scar , eyes, aging hands. the movie is poetry and as poetry it refuses to be confined in the structures of novel, this is a movie of images and music, it's like the work of an Impressionist painter, maybe there are autobiographical elements, let's not forget that AB was born in Malaga in 1960, so he more or less would have been the age of the characters at the same time. All in all it's a good movie and it was worth watching it, I hope who reads this has enjoyed it already or will in the future.