Films

In Bigas Luna’s best-known film, Javier Bardem plays a would-be bullfighter who models underwear and is hired to seduce away the lover (Penélope Cruz) of a wealthy woman’s son.

Benito González (Javier Bardem) is a young macho Spaniard whose aim in life is to erect the tallest building in the region, in Bigas Luna’s parody of machismo and ambition.

Winning Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival 1994, the final film in Bigas Luna’s Iberian Trilogy is a soulful fantasy and an ode to puberty and the motherland, Catalonia.

Javier Bardem produces this documentary on the larger-than-life director Bigas Luna, compiled from over 600 hours of his personal video-diaries to reveal his most intimate side.