Modern Spain: El futuro (Luis G.Carrasco, 2014)

From the edge of documentary—where all the intermediate states blend into fiction—Luis López Carrasco’s cinema engages in a dialogue with the foundational and mythical moments of Spain’s recent history. The 1982 to which El futuro’s time tunnel transports us is steeped in the promise of modernity, whose consequences land with dramatic impact in the 1992 depicted in El año del descubrimiento. Synopsis: A group of young people dance and drink in a house. The atmosphere is festive and joyful. The victory of the PSOE in the 1982 general elections feels recent, and the night is infused with a spirit of euphoria and celebration. The attempted coup of February 23, just a year earlier, seems to belong to another era—as if it were part of a past rapidly fading away. One could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was yet to come—everything was future. And yet, the future also seems to approach at great speed, like a black hole devouring everything in its path. A radical and transgressive cinematic proposal that reflects on the myths of la Movida and the Spanish Transition. [ICAA Database].