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Film · 2012

Lovetown

Original titleVilamor

Directed by Ignacio Vilar · starring Rubén Riós, Santi Prego and Sabela Arán

Synopsis

Feature of the Galician director Ignacio Vilar, who in 2014 was nominated for the Goya Awards for his work 'A Esmorga' to Best Adapted Screenplay. The film tells the reality of a small Galician village in 1976, just closed the chapter of the Franco dictatorship. Breixo (Ruben Rios) is a young man who lives with his family in the middle of the Serra do Courel, in deep Galicia, as he prepares to become the parish priest of Seoane. His life seems to have planned the millimeter until one day encounters a hippie commune that will forever change their way of seeing things. The aspiring church youth group and decide to collaborate to restore houses Vilamor and thus establish a new model of life in the place. They work the land and eliminate the concept of private property, becoming a big family. But everything is complicated when Breixo falls for Sonia (Sabela Arán), one of the girls in the commune. That conflicts begin to arise because Breixo not accept free love, drugs or atheism. Breixo takes a painful decision to leave the land of his soul. When she returns have spent thirty-three years and he has become a famous writer, but the place where he grew up no longer bring to mind memories.

The essentials

Runtime
112 min1 hour and 52 minutes
Budget
€1.5m
How long is Lovetown?
1 hour and 52 minutes (112 minutes).
Who directed Lovetown?
Ignacio Vilar.
Who is in Lovetown?
It stars Rubén Riós, Santi Prego, Sabela Arán and Luis Iglesia.
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Director
Ignacio Vilar
Writers
Ignacio Vilar
Producers
Ignacio Vilar

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Trivia

  • The movie was filmed in the real locations of the Serra do Courel, in spanish province Lugo.

  • The original version of the film is shot in Galician language.

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