Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados)

Here's a companion piece to last week's episode. In David Trueba's 2013 film, set in Spain in 1966, English teacher Antonio and two young hitchhikers take a road trip to Almeria where he hopes to meet John Lennon on the set of How I Won The War.

Starring Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina and Francesc Colomer, Living is Easy with Eyes Closed won several Goya awards and was Spain's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2015 Academy Awards.

We talk about how Strawberry Fields Forever and Help! are used as themes, how the film uses John's star status to make him a mythical, unattainable figure, what that means about the relationship of fans to stars, and how the film subverts the tropes of the road movie.

Thanks a lot to Juan Gil Manjón for his contribution to this episode.

• You can rent it in the UK on Prime, Apple TV or Chili: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/living-is-easy-with-eyes-closed
• Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/uO1jXG38XbM
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2896036/

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