The Life Sublime

La vida sublime tells the story of a grandson who finds the passion he seeks in the character of his dead grandfather El Cuco and the trip his grandfather made as a youth to southern Spain in the early 1940s A trip that should have remained a family mystery The South and his grandfather open up a fascinating new world a space in which a personal memory that immortalizes El Cuco can be created A tribute by a grandson to the lost generation of the Franco dictatorship era one which was not able to fulfill its dreams A quest for the myth and the sublime A new writing of family history A film that deals with the issue of borders Borders between North and South imagination and reality present and past grandfathers and grandsons Spain and America madness and lucidity