Julio Medem (Actor)

Reviews of Julio Medem Movies

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Movies starring Julio Medem have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 73%.

Airbag - released in 1997 - is Julio Medem's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 20 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Julio Medem is Airbag - released in 1997 - with a score of 73% based on 20 reviews.

Actor Biography

Julio Medem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish writer and film director. Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas ('Cows') for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Sex and Lucia, where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style to direct and produce La pelota vasca ('The Basque Ball'), a documentary film about the political problems of the Basque Country, which caused a furor amongst Spain's right wing politicians. Following this, his film Caótica Ana debuted in 2007.

Julio Medem has acted in films with Javier Bardem, Rossy de Palma, Maria de Medeiros and Karra Elejalde.