Fill Me with Life
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- Daniel Valdés
- Ricardo González Iglesias
- Mónica Pérez Capilla
by Daniel Valdés
| Fill Me with Life | |
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| Spanish | Báilame el agua |
| Directed by | Josecho San Mateo |
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| Based on | Báilame el agua by Daniel Valdés |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Juan Molina |
| Edited by | José Salcedo |
| Music by | Miguel Ángel Magüesín |
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| Distributed by | Lauren Film |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Fill Me with Life (Spanish: Báilame el agua) is a 2000 Spanish drama film directed by Josecho San Mateo which stars Unax Ugalde and Pilar López de Ayala alongside Juan Díaz. It is based on the novel Báilame el agua by Daniel Valdés.
Set in Madrid,[1] the plot tracks the downward spiral of the couple formed by María and David into drug use, prostitution, organised crime, and social exclusion.[2][3]
Cast
- Unax Ugalde as David[4]
- Pilar López de Ayala as María[4]
- Juan Díaz as Carlos[4]
- Benjamín Seva[5]
- Fede Celada as Abundio[4]
- Antonio Dechent as Facundo[4]
- Beatriz Argüello as Verónica[4]
- Juan Viadas[5]
- Ion Gabella[5]
- Carlos Kaniowski[5]
- Beatriz Sánchez[5]
- Jesús Fuente[5]
- Nuria Mencía[5]
Production
Release
Selected for the official competition slate of the 45th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci),[3] the film was presented in October 2000. Distributed by Lauren Film, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 3 November 2000.[5]
Reception
Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País deemed the film to be a "lively and undoubtedly risky fiction", "but stylistically it does not live up to that risk and ambition, and it is stammering and imprecise" vis-à-vis the depiction of the "hellish dumps where the human plunderings of drug and juvenile destitution rot in Madrid".[6]