This Friday, November 7, it premieres It’s always winterthe new film by director David Trueba, and the protagonist of Carlos Boyero’s latest review in EL PAÍS. The film expert admits in his text that this film generates two “small problems” related to the characters played by David Verdaguer and Vito Sanz, although in the first case he manages to overcome his “disagreements.” Beyond these issues, he assures that the rest seems exemplary: “There is a story and a script with as much risk as it is governed by intelligence, grace, unpredictability, narrative and moral elegance.”
The main story of the film takes place in Liege, Belgium, where the protagonist is temporarily in an architectural competition and after having suffered a breakup. Boyero admits how delicate it is to make a relationship “believable and attractive” “between a 36-year-old guy and a 63-year-old lady.” It is based on the novel that the director himself wrote, Blitza book that the critic admits not having read, something he promises to remedy, while highlighting the quality of his other works.
The filmmaker likes what he sees and what he hears, and highlights how Trueba uses music, making special mention of Georges Brassens and Franco Battiato. In his review, Boyero makes it very clear that he likes the film and is grateful: “I feel very grateful and complicit in so many things in this luminous film at times, bitter at others, full of questions that are difficult to answer.”
(Read Carlos Boyero’s full review here: ‘It’s always winter’: and a little light can appear in the long winter. And here, the reviews of the movies that are released this week)
It’s always winter
Address: David Trueba.
Interpreters: David Verdaguer, Isabelle Renauld, Amaia Salamanca, Vito Sanz.
Gender: drama. Spain, 2025.
Duration: 100 minutes.
Premiere: November 7.