Ramiro

Creatures of habit as we are, we end up settling comfortably into even the greatest discontent. That is just where Ramiro is lying drowsily. He’s the owner of a second hand bookshop and a writer with perpetual (and convenient) block. His neighbours (a pregnant adolescent and her grandmother who is recovering from a stroke) unwittingly bring him a “gift” (in the form of an ex-convict) who installs himself in front of Ramiro’s television, causing a rupture in his rigid, grim routine. Ramiro’s life will thus literally become a TV soap. (Seville European Film Festival)