Julio Medem (born 21 October1958) is a Spanishwriter and film director. October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Medem was born in San Sebastian, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas ('Cows') for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed La ardilla roja ('The Red Squirrel') and Tierra ('Earth'), both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Los amantes del círculo polar ('The Lovers of the Arctic Circle'), which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieslowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Lucía y el sexo ('Sex and Lucia'), where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style to direct and produce La pelota vasca ('The Basque Ball'), a documentary film about the political problems of the Basque Country. This has made him highly unpopular in castilian Spain, and he can no longer make movies in his country of birth. Julio Medem is currently filming in France. Geography > Europe > Spain > Basque Country > Guipúzcoa San Sebastián with sailboats San Sebastián (Donostia in Basque) is the capital city of the province of Guipúzcoa, in the Spanish autonomous community of Basque Country. ... This article is about the traditional Basque domain. ... Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format that was developed in the 1960s and released on the market in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8mm home movie format. ... Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. ... General Surgery deals with surgical treatment of abdominal organs, e. ... Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. ... Poster for Vacas Vacas (Cows) is a 1991 Spanish film, the first full-length feature by director Julio Medem. ... The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spains main national film awards. ... Poster for La ardilla roja La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel) is a 1993 film by the Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem, starring Emma Suárez and Mancho Novo. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1996 films | Spanish films ... The palace in which the festival takes place. ... Poster for Los amantes del círculo polar Los amantes del círculo polar (The Lovers of the Arctic Circle) is a 1998 film by the Spanish director Julio Medem, starring Najwa Nimri and Fele Martínez. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Poster for Lucía y el sexo Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) is a 2001 Spanish film, written and directed by Julio Medem and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa. ... Poster for La pelota vasca La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (English The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone; Basque Euskal pilota: larrua harriaren kontra) is a 2003 documentary motion picture by Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem. ... This article is about the traditional Basque domain. ...
Poster for La pelota vasca La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (English The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone; Basque Euskal pilota: larrua harriaren kontra) is a 2003 documentary motion picture by Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Poster for Lucía y el sexo Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) is a 2001 Spanish film, written and directed by Julio Medem and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Poster for Los amantes del círculo polar Los amantes del círculo polar (The Lovers of the Arctic Circle) is a 1998 film by the Spanish director Julio Medem, starring Najwa Nimri and Fele Martínez. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1996 films | Spanish films ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Poster for La ardilla roja La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel) is a 1993 film by the Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem, starring Emma Suárez and Mancho Novo. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Poster for Vacas Vacas (Cows) is a 1991 Spanish film, the first full-length feature by director Julio Medem. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...
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IMDb entry on Julio Medem (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575523/)
Medem: In the section of the movie that is the past, we shot the whole sequence in a week and in order.
Medem: If somebody is running away from something, I adapt to that sensation, where you're protecting yourself, and when I'm in that state, I don't want to know about the past.
Medem: To clarify, in Spanish, the title is "Lucia and El Sexo," because Lucia is that energy, that present, that escape, and the sex part is the past, so that's why it's in that order.
While his name is not yet as recognizable as that of his compatriot Pedro Almodóvar, director JulioMedem has steadily garnered a reputation as one the central figures in Spanish film today—more specifically, in the thriving Basque cinema that is too little seen in the United States.
For their help and support in bringing the films of JulioMedem to Boston we wish to thank Juan Romero de Terreros of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C., the Filmoteca of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ricardo Peidró, Consul General of Spain in Boston.
In a nominally realist, rural setting, Medem creates an atmosphere of fantasy and poetry in which wild boars are attracted by female smells and widowers search for their dead, departed lovers among the stars.
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