Neighborhood ( Barrio )

Neighborhood (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Barrio
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Storyboards
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Fernando León de Aranoa

Written By:
Fernando León de Aranoa

Actors:
Críspulo Cabezas ..... Rai
Timy Benito ..... Javi (as Timy)
Eloi Yebra ..... Manu
Marieta Orozco ..... Susi, Javi's sister
Alicia Sánchez ..... Carmen, Javi's mother
Enrique Villén ..... Ricardo, Javi's father
Francisco Algora ..... Ángel, Manu's father
Chete Lera ..... Police inspector
Claude Pascadel ..... Antonio, Javi's grandfather
Pedro Miguel Martínez ..... Neighbor
Daniel Guzman ..... Chico bar de copas
Lluvia Rojo ..... Chica bar de copas
Nicolas Abraham ..... Carlos, Rai's brother
Concha Gómez Conde ..... Ana, Rai's mother
Pepo Oliva ..... Ignacio, Rai's father

Synopsis:

Following his award-winning Familia (1997), 30-year-old writer-director Fernando Leon de Aranoa set this Spanish drama in Madrid's grim working-class fringe neighborhood. Caught in the concrete jungle, 15-year-old friends Rai (Crispulo Cabezas), Manu (Eloi Yebra), and Javi (Timy) pass the summer dreaming of girls and sandy beaches. Javi is surprised by the sexual interest of his pals in his sister Susi (Marieta Orozco). Minus a vehicle, Manu struggles to keep his pizza delivery job. Entering a contest for an exotic vacation, Rai instead wins a jet ski -- which is stolen before he manages to profit by selling it. Manu and his father (Francisco Algora) lie about Manu's absent junkie brother, while Javi's mother (Alicia Sanchez) gets a court restraint to deal with Javi's violent father (Enrique Villen). The film features a soundtrack of Spanish rap and rock. At the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival, Leon de Aranoa received a 'Best Director' award plus two other awards for screenwriting.

Javi, Manu, and Rai are friends from school. They are teenagers, and they talk about girls a lot but seldom talk with them. They live together in the barrio (neighbourhood). It is a barrio of large social housing blocks. There is little to do, and in August even less. The centre of the city is far away, so the three friends spend most of their time in the barrio. The television news says that thousands of inhabitants of the city have gone to the coast for the summer. They wish they were among them. The windows of the travel agents are full of tempting offers. But their lives demonstrate how hard it is to leave the barrio and how hard it is to improve their situation. In the end, their lives take an unexpected turn.

A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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