Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

On a hot summer day in Madrid during a significant year of social and political transition in Spain, Miguel, a revered older journalist, meets with a beautiful young student, Ángela, in a café. She wants to interview him for a project. He, with sexual intentions, suggests they go to his friend’s studio nearby. Somehow they end up locked in a bathroom together, naked, with no rescue in sight. Removed from the outside world, the pair, who represent polarized generations, begin a complex duel. On the surface, it seems a setup of unequal age, intellect, ambition, and experience, but over 24 hours, power and desire transfer from person to person.

Madrid, 1987 focuses on two characters who embody the duality of their times. Veteran actor José Sacristán and María Valverde portray the vulnerability of their characters’ situation unforgettably. Writer/director David Trueba, who made Madrid, 1987 independently in Spain, skillfully pares down his film into a layered look at a fleeting and uncommon connection made across one of life’s divides.
- K.Y.

Jessica Huppert Berman
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David Trueba is a director of film and television, a screenwriter, novelist, and newspaper columnist. His first feature, La buena vida (The Good Life), was a 1997 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection. Trueba's Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina) was selected for the 2003 Cannes Un Certain Regard program. He wrote and directed Bienvenido a casa (Welcome Home) and the documentary La silla de Fernando (Fernando's Chair). Madrid, 1987 is a nominee for the Ibero-American Prize at the 2012 Miami Film Festival.