Cuca Canals

Birth : 1962-07-21, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

History

Cuca Canals has a degree in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Until 1992 he worked in advertising, winning numerous international awards. As a screenwriter has worked with Bigas Luna in 'Jamon Jamon' (Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival), Golden Eggs (Special Jury Prize at the Festival of San Sebastián), 'La Teta y la Luna' (Golden Osella best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival) and 'La Camarera del Titanic' (best Screenplay Award at the Festival of Cairo and 1998 Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), among other works. His first novel, 'Berta la Larga', was a critical and commercial success, and has been translated into several languages. In 1998 she published her second novel. She is also an interesting painter that has been exhibited in Madrid and Barcelona.

Movies

Two

Writer

Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.

I Want to Be a Soldier

Writer

“I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average 8 year old child who develops a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He starts to have communication problems with his parents and other children at school and becomes withdrawn, inventing two imaginary friends.

Diary of a Nymphomaniac

Adaptation

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.

Volaverunt

Screenplay

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

Scenario Writer

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

Screenplay

The Tit and the Moon

Writer

A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

Golden Balls

Screenplay

Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster.

Jamon Jamon

Screenplay

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.