Javier Rebollo
Directing
Biography
Javier Rebollo was born in 1969 in Madrid, Spain. He is a filmmaker, known for The Dead Man and being happy (El muerto y ser feliz, 2012), Woman without piano (La mujer sin piano, 2009) and Lo que sé de Lola (2006).
Known For
An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers.
Close to the Sultan
A Spaniard in Argentina becomes aware of his approaching death while staying at a hospital, so he decides to run away from Buenos Aires and start a trip up North, heading nowhere in particular.
The Dead Man and Being Happy
A quietly comic look at a Madrid housewife's attempt to escape from her mundane and tedious existence. Encountering mostly impersonal bureaucracy, she has no specific plan for what she wants to do, just the fervent hope that she will find the adventure she's so desperately seeking.
Woman Without Piano
A lonely guy, living an uneventful life in Paris, takes care of his mother. One day, a girl with a more exciting life moves in his apartment building.
Lola
People taking the last subways in working days always wear crumpled clothes. Sitting in a nearly empty car, they look at each other, they get a glimpse of each other. After another day with lost chances, they only expect to arrive home. Tomorrow will be another day.
En camas separadas
On Spain's Costa Blanca, a girl writes notes, sticks them in bottles, and tosses the bottles into the sea: "Hello, Stranger! I'm Paula and I'm 10." Fernando, a solitary man of 59, finds one of the bottles and writes to Paula. A correspondence ensues in which she tells him about her personal life (her father dead, her mother remarried, her friend gone to Algeria) ; he tells her he's not happy. Fernando's wife asks who the girl is in a photo on his desk. He makes up a story. Paula calls him ("How did you get this number?"), her mother wants to get rid of her dog, she'd like to meet Fernando. Where is this leading?
¡Hola, desconocido!
Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without knowing it, her only client. This explains why Amanda, since then, has been stealing suitcase in a bus station in order to live. One day Amanda steals a suitcase which is different than the other. Its content will change her life.
The open luggage
Observation. Consumption.
Show
A life project based on absence. Lola works in a roadside bar while she waits for her boyfriend Damián to get out of prison. When one day, now free, he appears before her, the situation shows that the relationship no longer exists. That the only real thing is loneliness. Damián packs his suitcase.
En medio de ninguna parte
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FOMO
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La cerillera
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Yo tengo perspectiva (de la vida)
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Camionero
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