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Wandering Lives

1987 · 90 min

A gentle, unhurried road movie that drifts through mountain villages, finding quiet warmth in small encounters and the modest dream of building something of your own.

Overview
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • ambition
  • work
  • isolation
  • art
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
adventure, drama
Directed by
Juan Antonio de la Riva
Written by
Juan Antonio de la Riva, Tomás Pérez Turrent
Starring
José Carlos Ruiz, Ignacio Guadalupe, Gabriela Olivo de Alba, Francisco Javier Gomez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., José Carlos Ortega, Juan Manuel Reyes, Gaspar Laviada
Cinematography
Leoncio Villarias
Runtime
90 min
Country
Mexico
Languages
Spanish

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