Salvador Mallo is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film again, his life has no meaning. The mixture of medications, along with an occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his day prostrate. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, and the struggles and improvising his Mother made so that the family could survive. The appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Penélope Cruz stars in this Spanish drama from film-maker Julio Medem. When unemployed teacher and single mother Magda (Cruz) is diagnosed with breast cancer, she begins to doubt everything around her. While watching her son play football she meets talent scout Arturo (Luis Tosar) who takes a shine to both Magda and her son. When Arturo receives a phone call with news that his wife and daughter have been in a car accident, Magda goes with him to the hospital. As she has told no-one else of her illness, Magda decides to confide in Arturo and the two grow closer, bonding over ill fate. When she discovers that she is pregnant Magda realises that she has something to live for and changes her ways to ensure she is around to see her daughter grow up.
Sex Party and Lies follows eight friends who are discovering life and looking for a solution to the problems in their relationships. They live out their fantasies in clubs and bars then wake in up in the morning with reality staring them grimly in the face; the repercussions of their actions the night before affecting them and everyone else around them. Each has their own story to tell from un-kept promises and broken dreams to loneliness and coming to terms with their sexuality. The story set over 3 hot days in Alicante and 3 frenzied nights clubbing drinking and taking drugs is a coming of age tale of how the friends discover one by one that their lives cannot continue like this and something has to change...
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