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The Reconquest

Name: The Reconquest
Director: Jonás Trueba
Released: 2016
Duration: 108 min

Representation Score

7.8/10

Good

2016

Director

Jonás Trueba

Runtime

108 minutes

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Jonás Trueba’s film dismantles traditional social milestones and gender hierarchies. By adopting a 'slacker' style, it provides a postmodern critique of capitalist goals and rigid romance structures. However, the film falls short in representing diverse identities. Its focus on a specific urban middle-class demographic limits the exploration of racial and disability issues.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Reconquest have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film examines the complexity of modern relationships and emotions. It avoids typical romantic clichés by focusing on casual interactions and fleeting connections.

How does The Reconquest portray gender?

Good

Characters navigate ambiguous social roles rather than traditional stereotypes. Masculinity is shown through vulnerability and indecision in an urban setting, avoiding the strong protector archetype.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Reconquest?

Limited

The story centers on a predominantly white, urban middle-class community in Madrid. It does not include significant diversity or non-white actors.

How does The Reconquest represent religion and culture?

Good

The film questions traditional Western ideas of productivity and the nuclear family. It emphasizes personal experiences and the everyday life of city dwellers over institutional beliefs.

Does The Reconquest include disability representation?

Fair

The narrative does not address disability. The focus remains on the interpersonal and time-related dynamics of the main characters.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional gender hierarchies by highlighting emotional independence.
Questions patriarchal norms through realistic and vulnerable depictions of masculinity.
Critiques conventional Western values such as careerism and the nuclear family.

Limited or Absent

Lacks significant racial and ethnic diversity in its urban setting.
Does not represent or engage with disability in the narrative.
Maintains a relatively homogeneous social environment.

Official Synopsis

Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of time lost and time recovered; about what we remember about ourselves and what we don't remember; about the words, gestures and feelings to which we remain faithful, because they define and compel us today, yesterday and tomorrow.

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