Sinopsis
Fiction. Don is a real estate salesman who provides voluntary service in a crisis help line. Ann works in a photo and video store. Her boyfriend tells her that she doesn’t love her any more and that she wants to break up. In an attempt to get him back, she records a videotape telling him things she never told him. The lives of Don and Ann, as they cross, undergo fundamental changes.
Coixet was born in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona), in 1962. When she was just 27-year-old she released her first feature film, Demasiado viejo para morir joven. She settled in the United States, where she filmed her next movie Things I Never Told You (1996). Three years later she premiered A los que aman. In 2003 she won the Goya Best adapted screenplay Award with her film My life without me, obtaining her first audience great success. The film combines cinema with advertising, shooting commercials for some of the most internationally important companies. She is granted four Goya awards for The secret life of words (2005). In 2009 she premiered Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, shot between Japan and Barcelona. Amongst her latest films stand out Yesterday never ends, Learning to Drive and The Library, awarded at the Seminci, the Gaudi Awards and the Goya Awards, where she was granted the awards for Best film, Best direction and Best script.
Wednesday 4th April: 19.00h
Sala Berlanga, Fundación SGAE
Section: Ibero-American Women Directors Panorama
Year of Production: 1996
Running Time: 93′
Country: Spain
Original Language: English
Director: Isabel Coixet
Cast: Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann, Richard Edson and Seymour Cassel
Producer: Lluís Miñarro
Production Company: Eddie Saeta S.A.U.
International Sales: Wanda Films
Main festivals and awards: Nominated for the Goya Awards and awarded by the Assembly of Spanish Directors Filmmakers and by the Cinema Writers Circle
