Isabel Coixet — Director (9)
Too Old to Die Young (1989) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Demasiado viejo para morir joven
director: Isabel Coixet actor: Gerardo Arenas / Emma Suárez
other title: Demasiado viejo para morir joven / Massa vell per a morir jove
Two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes and bars and will be in the most varied situations: some of them dark, sometimes sinister and pathetic and some even pleasant.
Invisibles (2007) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Invisibles
other title: 看见不看见 / 看不見的人
A Bolivian mother has emigrated to Spain in the hope of being able to keep her family out of abject poverty. When her family member died from Chagas, a life-threatening parasitic disease, she still has to earn for livings far away from her home country; In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where armed conflict is ongoing, women are still under the threat of being sexually assaulted by combatants; In Uganda, thousands of children cover long distances every night to search for places of refuge to avoid being kidnapped as child soldiers; patients suffering from sleeping sickness do not have access to the essential medicines; thousands of Colombian families who are victims of the violence perpetrated by their country's various armed groups on the rural population try hard to return to their homeland.
With the help of Médecins Sans Frontières, five well-known directors have come together to give voice to the real-life protagonists of the film, the victims of five of the most under-reported crises.
Those Who Love (1998) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
A los que aman
other title: 给爱过的人 / A los que aman
97 min
TO THOSE WHO LOVE explores the secret and deep amorous passion that marks the life of a young doctor, and of those around him. This doctor is love with Matilde, who gives herself blindly to the wrong man. Her little sister Armancia, full of cruel innocence, and Valeria, a beautiful and mysterious fencing mistress, interfere further in the lives of the Doctor and Matilde. The result is a beautifully filmed story of unrequited love, fencing and life along the French/Spanish border in the early 19th century.