Hermosa juventud (2014)

	Also Known As: Beautiful youth
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Jaime Rosales
	Actors: Ingrid García Jonsson, Carlos Rodríguez
	Country: E, F
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 26.09.2014, Trueba 1, FSSDZ2014, Spanish version with English subtitles
Synopsis: Natalia (Jonsson) and Carlos (Rodríguez) are 20-year-old, in love and struggle for getting a job in a Spain in crisis. Their limited resources prevent them getting ahead as they would like to . They have no great ambitions because they have no great expectations. To earn a bit of money, they decide to shoot an amateur porn movie. And the pregnancy comes.
Review: The movie is very realistic. The reality of young adults in Spain, unemployed and struggling for life, some leaving their country. I felt it very realistic as one characters ends in Hamburg, close to my place. And I have seen indeed in the last couple of years plenty of Spanish people arriving to work in every type of work for much less money than their German colleagues. The story is shot time to time with video and this gives me more realism than the shaky camera of other movies seen in the festival. But the better trick was just to shoot from the perspective of another member of the family. In addition, the actors are both simple and authentic.  Jaime Rosales has taken a topic very modern in today's Europe.  The use of socail network pictures was very slow and disturbed the rythm. Asian movies showing the same do it much much better, such as May we chat.
Rating: 5 /10