Dies d'agost (2006)

Director:

Marc Recha

Release Date:

5 December 2006 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Twin brothers traveling the Catalan countryside encounter a reservoir of unique beauty.

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

David Recha	...	David
Marc Recha	...	Marc
Mariona Ordóñez	...	L'autostopista
Pere Subirana	...	El guarda forestal - Trompetista
Fina Susín	...	La cambrera del camping

Also Known As:

August Days (Canada: English title) (festival title)
Días de agosto (Spain: Castilian title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Catalan

Color:

Color

Company:

Benecé Produccions

Trivia:

Was initially entitled "El Peix Cat", which is Catalan for catfish. It was a reference to the catfish that the Germans imported, several decades ago, in the center of Catalonia and unloaded into the Elber River. Then they opened campsites so that they could come every year and fish their catfish, organizing competitions. One of the purposes of that title was to show how this invention of German tourism had completely destroyed the aquatic flora in that region.

Free ride

Freely, from one scene to another, from one story to another, just like when walking, from a shadowy path to an open place, like the wind in the leaves, from a tree to another, how many different sounds ? Just like when traveling, people meet and tell their stories and then part forever, who knows ? And just like when walking through these places full of the lost expectations from another time, the human 'thickness' of the world takes the breath away.

I saw this movie with friends of mine, not all of them liked it, maybe were they too used to scenario-based and ready-made stories, I don't know. So this movie is for the silly ones who love looking at the sun sparkling on the sea, walking without any hurry in the hills or through the little villages, listening to the growing grass, which tells the stories of those underneath, six feet under, in the warm wind of summer.