Dir.: David Trueba; Script: David Trueba; Phot.: William Lubtchansky; Ed.: Angel Hernández-Zoido; Mus.: Antoine Duhamel; Cast: Fernando Ramallo, Lucía Jiménez, Luis Cuenca, Isabel Otero, Victoria Peña, Jordi Bosch, Joel Joan, Jesús Bonilla, Alma Rosas Castellanas, Ramón Barea, Fernando Vivanco, Alicia Hermida; Prod.: Cristina Huete, Fernando Trueba PC S.A., Kaplan S.A., Olmo Films, Antonio Cavero, 37, 28043 Madrid (Espagne), tél.: (34-1) 759 62 64, fax: (34-1) 300 01 04; Sales: Lolafilms International, Velázquez, 12, 7, 28001 Madrid (Espagne), tél.: (34-1) 431 42 46, fax: (34-1) 435 59 94 .

Tristan attends a French lycée in Madrid, plays the piano and dreams of losing his virginity. The biological son of a Madrid salesman, Tristan imagines himself the spiritual fils of Voltaire; not yet fifteen, he is seriously at work writing his autobiography. His left-wing parents hate the political climate in Spain and dream of moving to France. One day, while they are away on a trip, Tristan invites a prostitute around to the house but, at just the wrong time, the phone rings with the terrible news that his parents have died in a car crash. Tristan moves in with his aunt and falls in love with his punky cousin Lucia. His relationship with these and other relatives and with his caring teacher Isabel, alters dramatically as he is forced to grow up fast. "I tried to make a film that deals with solitude as well as the desire to live. I had only one aim -- that THE GOOD LIFE convey the fragility, confusion and intensity of life when you're 15 years old." -- David Trueba "A charming, carefully crafted and low-key tragicomedy... (with a) keen eye for the idiosyncrasies of real people." -- Jonathan Holland (Variety)