Fernando Trueba

A film star returns to Spain in the 1950s to shoot an historical epic.

On a beautiful remote island in Greece, young and spirited Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American who settled on the island decades ago. As the seasons pass, sexual tensions rise, and tourists come and go, Enrico begins to unearth disturbing clues about Max's dark and mysterious past.

Spanish-British animated (a computer and hand-drawn blend) romance, for adults, set against the backdrop of the Jazz scene in Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in 1940s/50s. Nominated for Best Animated Film at the 2012 Academy Awards.