Fill Me with Life
Theatrical release poster
SpanishBáilame el agua
Directed byJosecho San Mateo
Screenplay by
  • Daniel Valdés
  • Ricardo González Iglesias
  • Mónica Pérez Capilla
Based onBáilame el agua
by Daniel Valdés
Starring
CinematographyJuan Molina
Edited byJosé Salcedo
Music byMiguel Ángel Magüesín
Production
companies
  • Plot Films
  • Cre Acción Films
Distributed byLauren Film
Release dates
  • October 2000 (2000-10) (Seminci)
  • 3 November 2000 (2000-11-03) (Spain)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Fill Me with Life (Spanish: Báilame el agua) is a 2000 Spanish drama film directed by Josecho San Mateo which stars Unax Ugalde and Pilar López de Ayala alongside Juan Díaz. It is based on the novel Báilame el agua by Daniel Valdés.

Plot

Set in Madrid,[1] the plot tracks the downward spiral of the couple formed by María and David into drug use, prostitution, organised crime, and social exclusion.[2][3]

Cast

Production

Based on the novel by Daniel Valdés, the screenplay was written with the collaboration from Ricardo González Iglesias and Mónica Pérez Capilla.[6][5] The film was produced by Plot Films alongside Els Quatre Gats and Cre Acción Films.[3]

Release

Selected for the official competition slate of the 45th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci),[3] the film was presented in October 2000. Distributed by Lauren Film, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 3 November 2000.[5]

Reception

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País deemed the film to be a "lively and undoubtedly risky fiction", "but stylistically it does not live up to that risk and ambition, and it is stammering and imprecise" vis-à-vis the depiction of the "hellish dumps where the human plunderings of drug and juvenile destitution rot in Madrid".[6]

Accolades

Year Award CategoryNominee(s) ResultRef.
200145th Sant Jordi AwardsBest ActressPilar López de AyalaWon[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ González del Pozo, Jorge (2010). "Báilame el agua: la espiral de la heroína en el Madrid post-movida". Hispanic Research Journal. 11 (2): 144–156. doi:10.1179/174582009X12608792134218. S2CID 143887623.
  2. ↑ Muñoz, Marc (15 November 2016). "las 9 mejores películas sobre drogas del cine español". i-D. Vice Media.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tres películas españolas competirán por la Espiga de Oro en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Valladolid". Europa Press. 31 August 2000.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rubio Alcover, Agustín; Fernández Fernández, César (2015). "Círculos sin fronteras. Paraísos artificiales y diversidad regional en el cine español contemporáneo (la representación del «mundo de la droga»)" (PDF). Institut Catholique de Toulouse. ISSN 1959-6995 – via Universitat Jaume I.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Báilame el agua · España 2000". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Adaptaciones de la literatura española en el cine español. Referencias y bibliografía. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  6. 1 2 Fernández-Santos, Ángel (24 October 2000). "Mirada dentro de un infierno juvenil madrileño". El País.
  7. ↑ "«El portero», mejor película española en los premios Sant Jordi de Cine". ABC. 30 January 2001.
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