Alvaro López Alba’s ECAM-Developed Debut Feature ‘Three Summer Days’ Explores Family Dynamics
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente In Álvaro López Alba’s “Three Summer Days” (“Tres días de verano”), a vacationing family’s dissimilar takes on an event threatens to drive them apart.
It follows a father and his two kids on a beach holiday, the young girl, Cris, has fallen for a boy, causing a rift in her friendship with pal Miri.
Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri. Meanwhile, their father is engaged in a secret affair he desperately tries to conceal from them.
Over these three days at the beach, the family will struggle to reconnect as insecurities, jealousy and hidden truths unravel their close-knit world. “I’ve based the story on personal experiences and that of my family and people around me,” López Alba told Variety, who only started making short films some six years ago, and in earnest over the past three.
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