This one deals with a group of friends who form a Rock band called Septima Invasion, but they have a bad and unfortunate life . Then a powerful discographic agency offers them to sign up a multinational in exchange of turning their music into popular and catching songs . They are David : Gustavo Salmeron, who works as a sender to survive and lives with his girlfriend Bea : Laia Marull , Javi : Tristan Ulloa, and Fran : Adria Collado. As the peculiar lives of these young people are interwoven themselves, adding other roles as the drug-seller played by Guillermo Toledo or the junkie Lola Dueñas who falls for Javi. Meanwhile , upper-class Javi : Tristan Ulloa doesn't wants to work and has problems with his wealthy parents and a druggie adolescent sister . And Fran : Adria Collado has crushes on other girls and Natalia : Maria Esteve is really jealous of his betrayals . Besides, Fran is tempted by a Disco multinational to undertake a career as a commercial singer.
Based on the homonymous melodramatic novel about Madrid youngsters and their vital frustration by writer Jose Angel Mañas and script by Luis Marias , this is a melodrama formed by various interwined stories, though they have not much interest. This Mensaka has not the moralizing and anarchist charge of Historias del Kronen also written by Mañas and director Monxto Armendariz adapted in 1995 with Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Molla. Film debut of director Salvador Ruiz who delivers a particular soap opera with interesting issues , describing the youthful of the 90s and their twisted love stories. The cast is pretty good, giving nice performances with special mention for Tristan Ulloa as the desperate but honorable Javier who seeks redemption helping a druggie magnificently performed by Lola Dueñas and Laia Marull as the fiancee who deceives her boyfriend with a discographic producer : Gines Garcia Millan. Support cast is frankly fine, such as Alejo Sauras, Guillermo Toledo, Myriam de Maeztu, Elvira Lindo, Tony Zenet, Silvia Casanova, Janfri Topera and many others .
It has an attractive musical score by Pascal Gaigne and accompaining Rock and popular soundtrack from notorious bands and singers as Rosendo Mercado, Enrique Urquijo , Andres Calamaro, Los Rodriguez,
Los Secretos , Bloqueo, Septima invasion. Colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Teo Delgado who has photographed a number of successes : Pantaleon y las visitadoras, Juego de luna, Castillos de carton, Zapping, Flores de otro mundo,
Tension sexual no resuelta , Bajo la piel . The motion picture was decently directed by Salvador Garcia Ruiz. It won Goya awards : best adapted script and nominee best new actor :Tristan Ulloa. Turia Award : Best first work to Salvador Ruiz. Toulouse CineEspaña Festival was winner : best actor to Tristan Ulloa, Lola Dueñas. And Spanish Union Actors 1999 winner to Lola Dueñas. Salvador Ruiz is a good writer and director as cinema as TV. As he has directed nice films as Castillos de Carton, El otro barrio with Willy Toledo and Voces de la noche with Tristan Ulloa and Laia Marull. In television he directed episodes of known series as La Catedral del Mar, Carlos I emperor, Isabel , Gran Reserva, 14 Abril La Republica, La Señora , Hospital Central, and Lobos
