I confess that I'm not very keen on movies of teenagers in their awakening to life. I hate their pretended poetry, and the usual pretension of showing what EVERY normal human being should have felt in that moment of life. Even though I identify with much of the situation or the feelings of the young protagonist, there is always something that takes me out. It's all so beautiful, even when it's not! Why these characters are always such good and interesting people?
Anyway, "La buena vida" is not even a good movie of this genre. It starts quite classically, although with no much interest, but it develops really bad, with more amount of drama than a cheap TV movie about cancer. The teenager's whole family dies, so there is a moment in which we see his drama of loneliness and afterwards how he struggles to lose virginity. This mixture works really bad, because nothing really works. And the ending is completely stupid.
Some people, in 1996, enjoyed the movie because of Luis Cuenca's interpretation as the protagonist's grandfather. OK, he is really good, but it's not enough. And we have Joel Joan to compensate for bad.
Anyway, "La buena vida" is not even a good movie of this genre. It starts quite classically, although with no much interest, but it develops really bad, with more amount of drama than a cheap TV movie about cancer. The teenager's whole family dies, so there is a moment in which we see his drama of loneliness and afterwards how he struggles to lose virginity. This mixture works really bad, because nothing really works. And the ending is completely stupid.
Some people, in 1996, enjoyed the movie because of Luis Cuenca's interpretation as the protagonist's grandfather. OK, he is really good, but it's not enough. And we have Joel Joan to compensate for bad.