Semi-autobiographical story from Spain, about a young woman embarking on a quest to learn more about the parents who died when she was young, and their relationship as young lovers before she was born. It is a lightly fictionalized account of writer/director Carla Simón’s own experiences.
In 2004, an orphaned young woman, Marina, travels to Vigo to seek information about her biological father, who died from AIDS. She meets her uncle and the rest of her family on her father’s side, who are reluctant to bring up the past due to shame because of Marina’s biological parents’ struggles with substance abuse
Translation into plain English: Both parents died of “SIDA” (AIDS-related illness).
Tomato Meter: 88%
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDb: 7.1/10
Great nudity – and in a film debut. This really starts 2026 off on the right foot.
Gotta say, I’m liking this year so far!
Which is a good sign since your post is what, 18 hours in? 🙂
Go into every situation with zero expectations and everything good thing will be a pleasant bonus.
The subject matter of the movie sounds like it might be a bit rough, but she looks great.
It is not as dire as it sounds. The director has been nominated for multiple Goyas for her two earlier films in the autobiographical trilogy.
BUT
As of now, I could only find it with Spanish sub-titles, so it’s not worth watching at this moment unless you understand Spanish. When it comes out with other subs, you may find it worth a look.
It is spoken in various Spanish dialects and a bit in French, with subtitles in standard Castilian Spanish. Why Spanish with Spanish subtitles? Although almost everyone in Spain understands and speaks Castilian, they do not always speak it to one another. There are several million Catalan speakers, for example. Therefore, when dialogue is in Castilian, everyone in Spain understands it, but when it is in Basque or Galician or Catalan, they translate it into standard Castilian in the subtitles.
This also makes it accessible to the hundreds of millions of people in the Americas who understand the language they call Spanish, but have no clue when people start speaking Basque. That’s a massive marketing advantage – making the film’s target market a half billion people instead of just the fifty million in Spain.
This was a big deal with Catalan speakers when I worked in Barcelona. They had no objection to people speaking Castilian at any time, since everyone in Spain understands it, but they hated it when the Castilian speakers called it “Spanish,” because it suggests exclusive claim to the term, and all four of those languages are technically Spanish languages. I listened to two local Shell guys in Barcelona get rather heated with a guy from the Madrid HQ over this issue, with the battle cry “Catalan es español tambien.” (Or, as they taught me, “El català també és”)
I have heard that people are now more relaxed about this in Catalunya. I don’t know whether the Basques are still sensitive.
Unfortunately, all my knowledge about the world is dated about 1997, so I could be wrong about everything.
I have a close friend who is from Spain and he has talked to me often about Spanish issues, including Spanish linguistic issues. However, I did not know about some of the subjects you have raised, including that people from Catalonia consider Catalan to be as ‘Spanish’ as Castilian.
I do know though that the Basque language is completely separate, and indeed is believed to be separate from any other existing language in the world. World languages are classified into major language families, including the Indo-European family of which almost all European and Indian languages are part. There are a few non-Indo-European outliers in Europe, such as the Uralic family which includes Finish and Hungarian. And then in some parts of the world there are a number of ‘isolate’ languages that don’t seem to have any relationship at all with any other language. Basque is one of those.
The origin of the Basque language is one of the great unsolved mysteries. Some in my Russian family claim that Soviet scholars found close similarities to Georgian, but I think that theory is not accepted by mainstream scholars.
When I was a young man, I was an avid amateur Jai-Alai player, which brought me into contact with the very tiny Basque-American community, but very few of them spoke the language – maybe 10%. Some came from families where one or more parents could speak Euskara (as they called it), but they had only a passive knowledge of the language. Most just spoke Spanish as a first language, English as their adopted tongue. One or two said their native language was French.
I know that there is an effort to preserve the Basque language, but I think it is only a matter of time before languages like Basque and Zuni disappear.
you said “As of now, I could only find it with Spanish sub-titles” please tell me where you found the movie like which piracy streaming website? Please say even i want to watch the movie and i understand spanish subtitles so please say the name of website
I have pointed out many times that I never post anything but short clips from films, and I never tell people how to obtain films illegally. If you understand coded language, you might consider looking in heaven.
May she have a long and fruitful career, nude scenes included.
Do you have a spam folder for blog comments? Seems like some comments are blocked by some automatic method incorrectly. You may want to check spam if there is such for comments.
If you use multiple screen names and a link, it should delete your comments completely. See the “Privacy Policy, Cookies and Site Rules”
If you submit links while always using the same screen name, it should hold your comments for approval.
I assume you didn’t know the rule. Now you do. Please pick one screen name and use only that one.
Ok, thanks. I sometime use different names, because I don’t remember the last one, and I am often on a different computer where the previous name is not stored and I just use some random name (I don’t really care about identities in blog comments).
I skipped submitting links to multiple different contents in comments which I’m pretty sure you would have found interesting, because I didn’t understand why the comment does not appear. I thought it was some kind of bug, but I’ll try to remember the previous name the next time.
Is this AI Sweeney? (link deleted) I seem to remember only a topless scene:
Fake.
There is no full-frontal scene in The Voyeurs.
Wow, this is a great start to 2026. Great looking woman, great body and shot it great light. Outstanding. I hope to see more of her.
Spectacular debut! 2026 off to a great start 🙂
This is why I love “art movies”, some of the hottest girls you’ve ever seen totally bush out, & no puffed-up Hollywood bullshit
“This is why I love “art movies”
Just wondering, do you all actually watch some of these movies or you just stop at the nude scenes?
Because if you do watch the movies, then apparently being a nudity connoisseur makes one well cultured in the area of the foreign artmovie scene at the same time.