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Plot

The fiction is set in an unidentified city. Upon leaving a psychiatric hospital, Adrián (a young man from a well-off family) feels betrayed by his father, who has left the city, leaving his son the family house. He crosses paths with Gonzalo, an outcast who has a complicated relationship with his mother Raquel, a

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Cast

Production

The screenplay was penned by Pablo Malo. The film was produced by (Zine 1). It boasted a budget of around €1.2 million. It was shot in October 2003 in the surroundings of

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, with some footage shot in

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Release

''Cold Winter Sun'' premiered at the 52nd San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2004. It also screened at the Viña del Mar International Film Festival, 4th 'EuropFilm' Mallorca Film Festival and the 5th Tudela Debut Film Festival. It was theatrically released in Spain on 12 November 2004.

Reception

Nuria Vidal of '' Fotogramas'' rated the film 3 of 5 stars deeming it to be a "cold film", "in which the characters live in an absolute loneliness made of strange relationships between each other that gradually unravel". Casimiro Torreiro of ''

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'' described ''Cold Winter Sun'' as a crime film displaying "a thick tone and a considerably gloomy look", hampered by the overaccumulation of edgy elements which thereby compromise the verisimilitude of a debut film otherwise promising vis-à-vis its making and the direction of actors.

Accolades

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References

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