Julio Medem

  • Julio Medem – El árbol de la sangre AKA The Tree of Blood (2018)

    Julio Medem2011-2020RomanceSpainThriller

    Marc and Rebeca travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family: once there, they will write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity… and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.Read More »

  • Julio Medem – La ardilla roja AKA The Red Squirrel (1993)

    Julio Medem1991-2000DramaSpainThriller
    La ardilla roja (1993)
    La ardilla roja (1993)

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    Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while…Read More »

  • Julio Medem – Habitación en Roma aka Room in Rome (2010)

    2001-2010DramaJulio MedemQueer Cinema(s)Spain

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    A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.Read More »

  • Julio Medem – La pelota vasca AKA The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (2003)

    2001-2010DocumentaryJulio MedemPoliticsSpain

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    Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem turns toward nonfiction to direct the documentary La Pelota Vasca: La Piel Contra la Piedra (The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone). This controversial film is a look at the complicated situation between the Basque nationalist movement and the Spanish government. Medem interviews politicians, novelists, musicians, and over 70 other commentators in his efforts to explain both sides of the complex situation in the Basque Country of Northern Spain. Contains French, Castilian Spanish, and Basque languages. The Basque Ball was shown at the San Sebastian Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for a Goya award.Read More »

  • Julio Medem – Tierra aka Earth (1996)

    Drama1991-2000Julio MedemSpain

    Tierra (Earth, Julio Medem, 1996) opens with a hypnotic journey through space, as the camera soars through the ethereal atmosphere, descending towards an agricultural area, then focusing in on a lone traveler who is having a motivational conversation with himself. A remote village has been infested with woodlice, imparting an earthy taste to the locally produced wine. An exterminator, a self-described “complex” man named Ángel (Carmelo Gómez), has been hired by the town mayor to fumigate the region. Ángel’s inner voice, the figurative angel of his subconscious who has died but continues to exist (and interject opinions) within his corporal self, believes that he has been sent down to earth for a divine mission.Read More »

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