| Director: | Mario Camus | ||
| Based On: | a story by Mario Camus | ||
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| Music: | Sebastián Mariné | ||
| Distributor: | Lauren Films | ||
| Cinematography: | Jaume Peracaula | ||
| Editing: | José M. Biurrun | ||
| Country: | Spain | ||
| Language: | Spanish |
The Color of the Clouds (Spanish; Castilian: '''El color de las nubes'''|links=no) is a 1997 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus which stars Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Ana Duato, Antonio Valero, and José María Doménech.
The plot revolves around a house in a Cantabrian village owned by Doña Lola, from which a series of intertwined subplots spawn. Lola and her niece Clementina agree on hosting a Bosnian refugee child (sabotaged by impostor kid Bartolomé), an old fisherman and Lola's friend (Colo) finds a drug cache nearby, the former house owner's son tries to evict Lola, and Clementina develops a romance with a lawyer (Valerio).
The film was produced by Urbana Films alongside Sogepaq. It was shot in Cantabria.[1]
Selected in the 45th San Sebastián International Film Festival's official selection, the film premiered in September 1997. Distributed by Lauren Films, it was theatrically released in Spain on 3 October 1997.
Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be Camus' best for some years, "a complex but uncomplicated, lyrical but hard-edged adventure-cum-mood piece, with the kind of luminous maturity and compassion to seduce offshore arthouse auds".[2]
Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered that Camus manages to "firmly hold on a fairly complex but fragile storyline", with the result of a "noble and solid Spanish film".[3]
|-| rowspan = "6" align = "center" | 1998 || rowspan = "6" | 12th Goya Awards || Best Actress || Julia Gutiérrez Caba || || rowspan = "6" | [4] |-| Best Supporting Actor || Antonio Valero || |-| Best New Actress || Blanca Portillo || |-| Best Cinematography || Jaume Peracaula || |-| Best Editing || José María Biurrun || |-| Best Art Direction || Antonio Cortés || |}