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Tomás, a long time friend with Julián visits his mate in Madrid. Julián is ill with cancer for one year and he has decided to stop his treatment and assume death. He has told his decision to his family and friends, but not all of them are ready to accept it. Together, they visit different places in order to arrange the day after Julián's departure. Time to stop, I won' tell you more about the story.

I'm not going to discover the two main actors in the crew. Javier Cámara and Ricardo Darín are normally brilliant and Truman is not different. They By the way, Truman is Julian's dog and his acting is great too. They are omnipresent through the movie and its for the good. Totally opposed in their characters - Javier is sensible and self-contained, whereas Julian is the artists stereotype: impulsive and anarchic - the mix works great.

Although this is a sensitive topic, the movie does not seek an easy tear from the spectator. Actually, it tackles some aspects of this approach to death very humorously.

For people familiar with Madrid, the movie is mostly shot in Las Salesas neighborhood, a very centric area in the city.

All the technical and cinematographic details of the movie have already been reviewed, so there is little that I can add on that side. There is only one personal comment that i can add and that I think that many people probably shares with me: I never thought that I would be able to weep and laugh with the same movie, and this is what Up is all about: emotion!

And the best part is that some cartoons did it! If you think about it when you see this movie, the plot itself is not that relevant, but all the personal situations and the feelings you can almost read on each character makes this piece so sensitive.

Although I'm not sure if this will have any international distribution, I think it's a quite decent production considering the low budget, specially compared with Pixar and Disney releases.

The story is about a bunch of animals from Doñana National Park in Spain, trying to save other animals kidnapped by the bad guys. There is nothing innovative in the story but it works. The only thing that I don't like is that some situations happen too fast for kids to catch them.

There some winks to nature protection and also to scape movies that I liked.

I hope that next time, under Antonio Banderas protection, this team will be able to compete American movies. We'll see...