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| Director: | Santiago Tabernero | ||
| Cinematography: | José Luis Alcaine | ||
| Editing: | José Salcedo | ||
| Music: | Matthew Herbert | ||
| Runtime: | 100 minutes | ||
| Language: | Spanish | ||
| Distributor: | Alta Classics | ||
| Country: | Spain |
Life and Colour (Spanish; Castilian: '''Vida y color'''|links=no) is a 2005 Spanish film written and directed by in his feature length directorial debut. Its cast features Junio Valverde, Silvia Abascal, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, and Joan Dalmau, among others.
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.
The film was presented at the 50th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in October 2005.[2] Distributed by Alta Classics, it was theatrically released in Spain on 5 January 2006.[3]
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".[4]
|-| align = "center" | 2005 || 50th Valladolid International Film Festival || colspan = "2" | Public's Choice Award || || |-| align = "center" | 2006 || 20th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Santiago Tabernero || || [5] |}