Jonás Trueba

Jonás Trueba, Spanish director born in Madrid in 1981.

Brought up in a Madrilenian film family (his father is director Fernando Trueba, his mother is a producer), Jonás Trueba films with disconcerting natural talent. His films are slices of life, created independently and with little means. France discovered his talent with The August Virgin (2019), a sentimental stroll through a solar Madrid. Trueba disarms, capturing life paths with simplicity, while giving ample room to the viewer and to his actors (from Itsaso Arana, who stars in three of his films and is also involved in writing them; to the teenagers in Who’s Stopping Us, Goya for Best Documentary in 2022, to whom the directing was partly delegated). Weaving plot lines about love, friendship, existence, and memory, his cinema paints a vibrant portrait of the desires of contemporary Spain.
Cero en conciencia (short feature, 2000) - Every Song Is About Me (2010) - The Wishful Thinkers (2013) - The Romantic Exiles (2015) - The Reconquest (2016) - The August Virgin (2020) - Who's Stopping Us (2021) - Teneís que venir a verla (2022)

Their list of films

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Jonás Trueba
about Yi Yi
of Edward Yang
C'est très difficile, d'atteindre ce niveau de compréhension du monde et de le retranscrire en film.
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Jonás Trueba
about The Child
of Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
Pour moi, les Dardenne sont sans doute les meilleurs scénaristes du cinéma actuel.
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Jonás Trueba
about Sunless
of Chris Marker
J'aime beaucoup aussi la manière dont Chris Marker invente un dispositif littéraire.
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Jonás Trueba
about Stromboli
of Roberto Rossellini
Ce film est le point de départ d'un autre Rossellini qui, à partir de là, fait un bond en avant, dépasse le néoréalisme et aborde autre chose, plus complexe à définir
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Jonás Trueba
about Groundhog Day
of Harold Ramis
Sous son apparence de film américain standard (...) il renferme une grande sagesse sur le plan du montage, de maniement du temps, du jeu d'acteur, de la subtilité des variations.