They Are All Dead

Some people may think it’s cool to have a rock star for a mother, but Pancho doesn’t. His mother Lupe, the former singer/keyboardist of the hit Spanish rock group Groenlandia, hasn’t left the house for as long as Pancho – a boy scout in those awkward early teen years – can remember. Plus, she hates music. Still grieving the loss of her brother and bandmate Diego, Lupe wears pajamas all day and obsessively bakes apple pies. Meanwhile, Pancho is left to the care of Paquita, his loveable Mexican grandmother. Yet, Paquita fears she won’t be around forever. In a desperate attempt to mend the strained relationship between her daughter and grandson, Paquita visits a spiritual healer, who proposes an unbelievable solution: bring Diego back from the dead. Set in Madrid in 1996, Beatriz Sanchís’s magical realist dramedy is an imaginative portrayal of one family’s struggle to come together before, and maybe even after, THEY ARE ALL DEAD. (In Spanish with subtitles) – E.B.