DAVID TRUEBA

LIVING IS EASY (WITH EYES CLOSED) (2014)
Starring Javier CÁmara, Natalia De Molina and Francesc Colomer. Directed by David Trueba.

t’s 1966, regional Spain: Antonio (played by the brilliant is a teacher and an obsessive Beatles fan – a passion that carries through to his classroom, where he uses the lyrics from “Help!” to teach his pupils English. By the rigid standards of the day, this makes Antonio a radical. When he learns that John Lennon is filming Richard Lester’s How I Won the War on the other side of the country, Antonio drops everything and sets out in in his tiny Fiat to find the production’s location, hoping Lennon can help him understand the lyrics to the newly released ‘Revolver’ LP.

En route, Antonio adopts two hitchhiking runaways: Juanjo, a 16-year-old boy fleeing his Franco-loving father, and Belén, 20 years old, single and pregnant, reluctantly heading home to her mother. Together they travel across the sun- drenched landscape towards a destination where they’ll learn more about themselves – and one another – than they could have ever imagined.