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Your Next Life

2004 · 100 min

A quiet, brooding rural drama where unspoken secrets and old grudges slowly poison a tight-knit community, with a forbidden romance simmering underneath.

Directed by
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Genres
Drama
Starring
Juan Diego, Luis Tosar, Marta Etura
Overview
A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and another fearful of arrest. He and his daughter Val conspire to keep the cause of death quiet, but tensions mount when Val becomes attracted to the dead farmer's son, Rai, estranged from his father and now a hairdresser in the city. The tensions open long-festering family resentments and spur the lurid imagination of Val's younger sister, the teen Genia. "What goes unsaid, gets undone," the Pasiegos say, but is it true? Is there harm in staying silent?

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Directed by
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Genres
Drama
Starring
Juan Diego, Luis Tosar, Marta Etura
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • deception
  • guilt
  • love
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Written by
Ángeles González-Sinde, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Starring
Juan Diego, Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Clara Lago, Celso Bugallo
Runtime
100 min
Country
Spain
Languages
Spanish

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