Life and Colour

2005 Spanish film

Life and Colour
Theatrical release poster

Spanish	Vida y color

Directed by	Santiago Tabernero
Written by	Santiago Tabernero
Produced by	Loris Omedes Gaizka Urresti Luis Ángel Ramírez
Starring	Junio Valverde Silvia Abascal Miguel Ángel Silvestre Carmen Machi Joan Dalmau Nadia de Santiago Andrés Lima
Cinematography	José Luis Alcaine
Edited by	José Salcedo
Music by	Matthew Herbert
Production companies	Imval Producciones Bausan Films La Filmería
Distributed by	Alta Classics
Release dates	24 October 2005 (2005-10-24) (Seminci) 5 January 2006 (2006-01-05) (Spain)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Life and Colour (Spanish: Vida y color) is a 2005 Spanish film written and directed by Santiago Tabernero [es] in his feature length directorial debut.^[1] Its cast features Junio Valverde, Silvia Abascal, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, and Joan Dalmau, among others.

Plot

Spain, 1975.^[1] Fede, a fifteen-year-old boy, is getting conscious of his environment little by little: his sister Begoña, unsatisfied with her imminent wedding; his grandfather, who stops dealing with his best friend after the Spanish Civil War; his friend Ramona, a girl with Down syndrome who was raped by her father, a young man who works with his father.

Cast

Junio Valverde [es] as Fede^[2]
Silvia Abascal as Bego^[3]
Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Javi^[4]
Joan Dalmau [es]^[2]
Adolfo Fernández [es] as Angel^[5]
Ana Wagener as Sole^[5]
Nadia de Santiago as Sara^[2]
Natalia Abascal as Ramona^[2]
Carmen Machi as Leo^[5]
Andrés Lima [es] as Marciano^[2]

Release

The film was presented at the 50th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in October 2005.^[6] Distributed by Alta Classics,^[5] it was theatrically released in Spain on 5 January 2006.^[2]

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "powerful, haunting and finely observed debut about life in a rural Spanish village during the last months of General Franco's life".^[5]

Accolades


Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2005	50th Valladolid International Film Festival	Public's Choice Award		Won	^[1]
2006	20th Goya Awards	Best New Director	Santiago Tabernero	Nominated	^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tabernero abre el ciclo de cine en Actual 2006 con el pre-estreno de su "opera prima" 'Vida y color'". Europa Press. 2 January 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "Vida y color". Fotogramas.
^ "Santiago Tabernero debuta como director con 'Vida y color', una historia de iniciación ambientada en 1975". Europa Press. 4 January 2006.
^ Jiménez Acevedo, Luis Alberto (2014). La discapacidad en el cine en 363 películas (PDF). Fundación ONCE. p. 36. ISBN 978-84-88934-32-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Holland, Jonathan (7 March 2006). "Life and Color". Variety.
^ "Tabernero presenta en la Seminci ´Vida y color´". Córdoba. Prensa Ibérica. 25 October 2005.
^ "Vida y color". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 16 September 2022.