The Beloved

The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez (Javier Bardem) is a legend, both for his impressive body of work and his notorious past filled with alcohol, violence, and excess. When he returns to Spain after thirteen years for the shooting of his new film, he unexpectedly offers his estranged daughter Emilia, an actress whose career is struggling to take off, the leading role.

What initially seems like a chance for reconciliation quickly turns into an emotional minefield. As father and daughter stand together on the film set, the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, and old wounds inevitably come to the surface.

Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall) delivers one of the most layered performances of his career, with Victoria Luengo (The Room Next Door, Amarga Navidad) as a convincing co-star.