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Spanish | El verano que vivimos |
Directed by | Carlos Sedes |
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Cinematography | Jacobo Martínez |
Edited by | Julia Juanatey |
Music by | Federico Jusid |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
The Summer We Lived [1] (Spanish: El verano que vivimos) is a 2020 romantic melodrama film directed by Carlos Sedes which stars Javier Rey, Blanca Suárez, and Pablo Molinero in a love triangle.
The plot delves into a love triangle that took place in the summer of 1958 in Jerez de la Frontera, concerning an architect who arrived to town to build a winery (Gonzalo), the one ordering the winery (Hernán) and the latter's fiancee (Lucía). A different timeline set in 1998 deals with the reconstruction of the aforementioned love story upon the investigations carried out by a journalist trainee working with obituaries (Isabel) who enlists the collaboration of Carlos, the architect's son. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The screenplay was penned by Ramón Campos , Gema R. Neira, Salvador S. Molina, Javier Chacártegui and David Orea. [10] The film is an Aquel Verano Movie AIE, Warner Bros Entertainment España, Atresmedia Cine, Mr. Fields and Friends, La Claqueta PC, Bambú Producciones and 4 Cats Pictures production. [11] Shooting began on 5 August 2019 in Jerez de la Frontera. [12] Shooting locations also included Galicia. [13]
The film was presented at the 68th San Sebastián International Film Festival on 20 September 2020. [4] Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures España, [14] it was theatrically released in Spain on 4 December 2020. [15]
Elsa Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the film "confuses eroticism and passion with a grandiloquent epic akin to a tourist postcard, redundant music, aerial shots, and a string of metaphors", with the film resenting from, among other issues, a screenplay "without much narrative foundation" and otherwise also turning out to be "implausible and whimsical". [3]
Mireia Mullor of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars highlighting the landscapes of Jerez de la Frontera vis-à-vis the film's setting as the best thing about the film. [16]
Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, determining as a veredict that the film is "a formulaic [kind of] cinema... which, for that reason, [it] works". [5]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | 35th Goya Awards | Best Original Score | Federico Jusid | Nominated | [17] |
Best Original Song | "El verano que vivimos" by Alejandro Sanz, Alfonso Pérez Arias | Nominated |
The Summer We Lived | |
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![]() Theatrical release poster | |
Spanish | El verano que vivimos |
Directed by | Carlos Sedes |
Screenplay by |
|
Produced by |
|
Starring |
|
Cinematography | Jacobo Martínez |
Edited by | Julia Juanatey |
Music by | Federico Jusid |
Production companies |
|
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release dates |
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Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
The Summer We Lived [1] (Spanish: El verano que vivimos) is a 2020 romantic melodrama film directed by Carlos Sedes which stars Javier Rey, Blanca Suárez, and Pablo Molinero in a love triangle.
The plot delves into a love triangle that took place in the summer of 1958 in Jerez de la Frontera, concerning an architect who arrived to town to build a winery (Gonzalo), the one ordering the winery (Hernán) and the latter's fiancee (Lucía). A different timeline set in 1998 deals with the reconstruction of the aforementioned love story upon the investigations carried out by a journalist trainee working with obituaries (Isabel) who enlists the collaboration of Carlos, the architect's son. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The screenplay was penned by Ramón Campos , Gema R. Neira, Salvador S. Molina, Javier Chacártegui and David Orea. [10] The film is an Aquel Verano Movie AIE, Warner Bros Entertainment España, Atresmedia Cine, Mr. Fields and Friends, La Claqueta PC, Bambú Producciones and 4 Cats Pictures production. [11] Shooting began on 5 August 2019 in Jerez de la Frontera. [12] Shooting locations also included Galicia. [13]
The film was presented at the 68th San Sebastián International Film Festival on 20 September 2020. [4] Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures España, [14] it was theatrically released in Spain on 4 December 2020. [15]
Elsa Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the film "confuses eroticism and passion with a grandiloquent epic akin to a tourist postcard, redundant music, aerial shots, and a string of metaphors", with the film resenting from, among other issues, a screenplay "without much narrative foundation" and otherwise also turning out to be "implausible and whimsical". [3]
Mireia Mullor of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars highlighting the landscapes of Jerez de la Frontera vis-à-vis the film's setting as the best thing about the film. [16]
Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, determining as a veredict that the film is "a formulaic [kind of] cinema... which, for that reason, [it] works". [5]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | 35th Goya Awards | Best Original Score | Federico Jusid | Nominated | [17] |
Best Original Song | "El verano que vivimos" by Alejandro Sanz, Alfonso Pérez Arias | Nominated |