Tristán Ulloa

Marina travels to Vigo to meet the family of her biological father, who died of AIDS, like her mother, when she was very young. Through meetings with her uncles, aunts and grandparents, the young woman tries to reconstruct an account of her parents, but they are all too ashamed of the couple’s drug conflicts, something Marina reminds them of with her presence. It will be the adolescent love story she lives with her cousin that allows her to reimagine her parents and connect with them. In this way, she invents a story, thanks to her mother’s diary, which frees her from the stigma her family feels for them and fulfills the desire to understand the past… Film about family memory that closes the trilogy of its director composed by ‘Verano 1993’ and ‘Alcarràs’.Read More »

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Sex and Lucía, not surprisingly, boasts ample doses of both sex and Lucía, but its rather straightforward title doesn’t begin to intimate what a simultaneously confounding and enticing experience the film really is. Julio Medem’s sumptuous, smoldering, and ultimately confusing fable begins in the middle, with Lucía (the fiery Paz Vega) fleeing her home after thinking her novelist boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) has killed himself. The film’s first half jumps back and forth between the past and present, cross-cutting between the couple’s passionate first steps together (shot graphically, but not lewdly) and Lucía’s self-imposed exile on a mysterious island off the coast of Spain that Lorenzo spoke of reverently but refused to visit with her.Read More »