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Beautiful Youth

2014 · 102 min

A quiet, naturalistic drift through precarious youth, where boredom and tenderness sit beside quiet desperation.

Directed by
Jaime Rosales
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez, Inma Nieto
Overview
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porno film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make.

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Directed by
Jaime Rosales
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez, Inma Nieto
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • class
  • isolation
  • family
  • survival
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Jaime Rosales
Written by
Jaime Rosales, Enric Rufas
Starring
Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez, Inma Nieto, Fernando Barona, Juanma Calderón, Torbe
Cinematography
Pau Esteve Birba
Runtime
102 min
Country
France, Spain
Languages
German, Spanish

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