Ricard Casals

Movies

Swirl
Mix Technician
Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies.
Birdsong
Recording Supervision
The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.
The Silence Before Bach
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
Where Is Madame Catherine?
Sound
The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, their dreams, their past and their perspectives in life. The foreigner is hosted there and is messed in the deep whereabouts of these people and tries somehow to fit in.
The Pianist
Sound Mixer
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
What Makes Women Laugh?
Sound Mixer
Luci, Graci and Mar­, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.
Muere, mi vida
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
El largo invierno
Sound Mixer
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
Chatarra
Sound Mixer
Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.
Visiones de un extraño
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ho sap el ministre?
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
La teranyina
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
El acto
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
This is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas
Too Old to Die Young
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes and bars and will be in the most varied situations: some of them dark, sometimes sinister and pathetic and some even pleasant.
Una nit a Casa Blanca
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Geltra and Pau don't know each other, she's 23 and tired of all the experiences she's gone through. He's 19 and just left home not knowing where to go or what to do. They will meet in this road trip while heading to a place in Delta de l'Ebre called "Casa Blanca".
Anguish
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
La senyora
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Laura, del cielo llega la noche
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A young woman marries a rich man and begins a new life in a little town in the Spain of the 20s. Feeling trapped and bored, she begins a relationship with her husband's stepbrother.
The Hidden Truth
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world.
Adela
Sound Mixer
Andrés Reyes is a police inspector of renowned prestige in Barcelona. After his intervention in the kidnapping of a young girl (who is finally freed by her captor), the head of the police force promotes the protagonist to commissioner. In this new role, Andres gets to work on the case of Adela, a transvestite in need of protection. An Arab mobster and a network of traffickers are hatching a plan around his victim. Andres will have a shady relationship with Adela, until the final intervention.
In a Glass Cage
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Lola
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship.
The Enigma of the Yacht
Music
By medical prescription, Natalia embarks on a yacht to enjoy a deserved vacation. With her travel Carlos, her husband, Blanca, Carlos 'lover, and Carlos' husband.
Como un adiós
Sound Re-Recording Mixer