Spanish filmmaker.
He studied political science and film in Madrid.
In 1967, he moved to Venezuela where he worked in television and film.
There he made his feature film debut with Todos y nadie (1975) and directed Adiós, Alicia (1977), La casa del paraíso (1982) and El señor de los llanos (1987).
There he also participated as a screenwriter in La muchacha de las bragas de oro (1980) by Vicente Aranda and in La matanza de Santa Bárbara (1986) by Luis Correa as screenwriter.
He then returned to Spain where he continued working as a director, screenwriter and producer, in particular Tatiana, la muñecas rusa (1995) and Azaña (2008).
He has been President of the Assembly of Spanish Film Directors (ADIRCE).
Madrid, 1990. A married couple belonging to the nobility are brutally murdered in their luxurious mansion. Martín Díaz, an atypical police inspector, finds himself trapped throughout his investigation by a world that is alien to him and at the same time hostile and fascinating.
Spain, 30's. Fabian Insausti (Juan Luis Galiardo), which has become a rich landowner in Venezuela, returns to his hometown due to the death of his mother. One day he decides to visit an old mansion converted into a luxury brothel, and there falls in love with Ana (Maribel Verdú), a young prostitute. He asks her to accompany him, but she is not willing to give up the luxury of home run by Charo, for her real mother. So the owner Fabian offers its pupils move to Venezuela, under the same conditions they have here.
Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father
Victoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever leaving the house. There is an enigmatical man who controls the lives of these people and the visit of Victoria will unchain passions and disclose the true feelings represed into their souls.
Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
In the process of illness and death of the father of three sisters (Eva, Julia and Perla) they confront each other, their lives, their past, their hopes and frustrations in a middle class environment. It is based on an idea by Mauricio Walerstein and Ibsen Martínez.