Life and Colour

{{Infobox film

| image = Life and Colour poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|Vida y color|nolink=yes}}

| director = Santiago Tabernero

| writer = Santiago Tabernero

| starring = {{ubl|Junio Valverde|Silvia Abascal|Miguel Ángel Silvestre|Carmen Machi|Joan Dalmau|Nadia de Santiago|Andrés Lima}}

| producer = {{ubl|Loris Omedes|Gaizka Urresti|Luis Ángel Ramírez}}

| cinematography = José Luis Alcaine

| editing = José Salcedo

| music = Matthew Herbert

| released = {{Film date|2005|10|24|Seminci|2006|01|05|Spain|df=yes}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| language = Spanish

| studio = {{ubl|Imval Producciones|Bausan Films|La Filmería}}

| budget =

| distributor = Alta Classics

| country = Spain

}}

Life and Colour ({{langx|es|Vida y color|links=no}}) is a 2005 Spanish film written and directed by {{ill|Santiago Tabernero|es}} in his feature length directorial debut. Its cast features Junio Valverde, Silvia Abascal, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, and Joan Dalmau, among others.

Plot

Spain, 1975.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/la-rioja/noticia-tabernero-abre-ciclo-cine-actual-2006-pre-estreno-opera-prima-vida-color-20060102192011.html|website=Europa Press|date=2 January 2006|title=Tabernero abre el ciclo de cine en Actual 2006 con el pre-estreno de su "opera prima" 'Vida y color'}} Fede, a fifteen-year-old boy, is getting conscious of his environment little by little: his sister Begoña, unsatisfied with her imminent wedding; his grandfather, who stops dealing with his best friend after the Spanish Civil War; his friend Ramona, a girl with Down syndrome who was raped by her father, a young man who works with his father.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

{{ill|Junio Valverde|es}} as Fede
Silvia Abascal as Bego{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/cultura/cine-00128/noticia-santiago-tabernero-debuta-director-vida-color-historia-iniciacion-ambientada-1975-20060104170042.html|website=Europa Press|date=4 January 2006|title=Santiago Tabernero debuta como director con 'Vida y color', una historia de iniciación ambientada en 1975}}
Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Javi{{Cite book|title=La discapacidad en el cine en 363 películas|first=Luis Alberto|last=Jiménez Acevedo|publisher=Fundación ONCE|year=2014|isbn=978-84-88934-32-1|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/libro/699223.pdf|page=36}}
{{ill|Joan Dalmau|es}}
{{ill|Adolfo Fernández (actor)|es|Adolfo Fernández|lt=Adolfo Fernández}} as Angel
Ana Wagener as Sole
Nadia de Santiago as Sara
Natalia Abascal as Ramona
Carmen Machi as Leo
Andrés Lima as Marciano

}}

Release

The film was presented at the 50th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in October 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariocordoba.com/cultura/2005/10/25/tabernero-presenta-seminci-vida-color-38716789.html|website=Córdoba|publisher=Prensa Ibérica|date=25 October 2005|title=Tabernero presenta en la Seminci ´Vida y color´}} Distributed by Alta Classics, it was theatrically released in Spain on 5 January 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a11802/vida-y-color/|website=Fotogramas|first=Mirito|last=Torreiro|title=Vida y color|date=29 May 2008}}

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "powerful, haunting and finely observed debut about life in a rural Spanish village during the last months of General Franco's life".{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/life-in-color-1200517836/|website=Variety|date=7 March 2006|first=Jonathan|last=Holland|title=Life and Color}}

Accolades

| align = "center" | 2005 || 50th Valladolid International Film Festival || colspan = "2" | Public's Choice Award || {{won}} ||

| align = "center" | 2006 || 20th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Santiago Tabernero || {{nom}} || {{Cite web|access-date=16 September 2022|publisher=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España|website=premiosgoya.com|url=https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/vida-y-color|title=Vida y color}}