Julio Esteban

Movies

Mondays in the Sun
Production Design
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.
Broken Silence
Art Direction
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero
Art Direction
The adventures of a group of secondary school . Juan, one of the group, falls in love with Sara, the new girl.
Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Art Direction
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?
Stories from the Kronen
Set Decoration
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
Cartas desde Huesca
Art Direction
Angy, British publisher specialized in Spanish subjects, and her husband, come to Madrid in search of some manuscripts of the English poet Benton, who died in Huesca during the Civil War. The documents are supposed to be held by Mainar, old anarchist combatant. Contact and subsequent relationship with him, will cause the crisis of the marriage and eventually will trigger a personal drama in Mainar
Jamon Jamon
Set Decoration
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.
Offsides
Production Design
Comedy as six pensioners in residence take on the sponsorship of the FOOTBALL team in the neighbouring orphanage with unexpected consequences.
Baroque
Production Design
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
Sinatra
Art Direction
Antonio Castro, Sinatra, is a fighter of life working in an old cabaret in Barcelona imitating Frank Sinatra, accompanied in his show by Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich and Lola Flores. But one day, the sky dresses in gray for him; his wife, who works as a waitress in the same place, decides to leave him.
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Production Design
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.
Mambru Went to War
Costume Design
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family of Florentina. Fiorentina communicates to the rest of the family a story far more important than the general's death: her husband Emiliano (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), who had been left for dead in the civil war, is alive. During the Franco dictatorship has remained hidden beneath the pylon is in the courtyard of the house.
Mambru Went to War
Art Direction
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family of Florentina. Fiorentina communicates to the rest of the family a story far more important than the general's death: her husband Emiliano (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), who had been left for dead in the civil war, is alive. During the Franco dictatorship has remained hidden beneath the pylon is in the courtyard of the house.
Réquiem por un campesino español
Production Design
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
Café, coca y puro
Set Decoration
Café, coca y puro
De hombre a hombre
Set Decoration
Double Feature
Set Decoration
Director José Luis Garci has turned his camera inward on filmmakers and screenwriters to portray them as so self-absorbed in the creative process that there is no other world, no other human relationship that can compete. As José (Adolfo Marsillach) and Federico (Jesus Puente) work together on a new screenplay, their interactions with their family (José's teen daughters, Federico's wife) disappear under the all-consuming task of creation. The daughters give up and go off on their own, and the wife joins a convent while Federico barely notices. And when the producer is interrupted by profound grief at the sudden death of his older son, he almost automatically returns to thinking about the film project when the funeral has ended. Garci honors many great directors at the beginning of this film, and the film continues to play out as an elaboration on this homage -- an illustration both of the dedication and the cost of filmmaking, no judgments given.
Double Feature
Production Design
Director José Luis Garci has turned his camera inward on filmmakers and screenwriters to portray them as so self-absorbed in the creative process that there is no other world, no other human relationship that can compete. As José (Adolfo Marsillach) and Federico (Jesus Puente) work together on a new screenplay, their interactions with their family (José's teen daughters, Federico's wife) disappear under the all-consuming task of creation. The daughters give up and go off on their own, and the wife joins a convent while Federico barely notices. And when the producer is interrupted by profound grief at the sudden death of his older son, he almost automatically returns to thinking about the film project when the funeral has ended. Garci honors many great directors at the beginning of this film, and the film continues to play out as an elaboration on this homage -- an illustration both of the dedication and the cost of filmmaking, no judgments given.
La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros
Art Direction
El crack dos
Set Decoration
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced.
Good Evening, Mr. Monster
Set Decoration
Four boys get lost in the forest in the middle of a storm and go take refuge in an abandoned mansion. There they will meet and face Dracula, the Werewolf, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the attempts of the monsters to scare them and, in passing, recover the lost prestige, the boys, with the help of Count Dracula's son, will face the evil creatures.
Todos al suelo !!
Art Direction
Ni te cases ni te embarques
Production Design
¡Qué gozada de divorcio!
Set Decoration
Unbridled Passions
Art Direction
Wealthy Olga Arbant, with the help of her submissive husband Paul, enjoys kinky scenarios to help with the writing of her novels, as well as controlling everything and everyone. Impoverished Patrizia, who is a virgin, has agreed to do whatever Olga demands for one month. After being subjected to various humiliations, Patrizia frustrates Olga by developing a mind of her own.
Es peligroso casarse a los 60
Set Decoration
A confirmed bachelor, over his sixties, is finally decided to marry, with the primary objective of having a son to inherit his business of coaches for tourists. Held the wedding, descendants don't arrive, but what comes into the house of the protagonist is an 18-year-old daughter of a distant childhood sweetheart willing to impose other points of view about everything.
Los chulos
Art Direction
Félix rebolledo is a pimp who owns a cabaret, two bingo halls and three dating houses. He now intends to open a party hall, and for this he has - as he always has - the support of the Bishop, whom he has bribed with frequent donations. Counting on the support of the Church, it will be much easier for him to have the approval of the City Council, although, on the other hand, he also has bribed, among others, the mayor and the president of the Council of the Deputation.
La moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe
Set Decoration
In order to get his hands on his father's inheritance and pay all his debts, Don Peppino must see his son Gianluca married and produce an heir within a year. Problem is everybody suspects the boy of playing for the other team.
El alcalde y la política
Set Decoration
Tobi
Assistant Set Decoration
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
La decente
Assistant Set Decoration