With You, With You and Without Me
(Contigo, contigo y sin mi)
Amaya Villar Navascués | Documentary, Drama, Comedy, Animation, Romance
2023 | 86 minutes | Spain
Amaya reflects on four love relationships over 20 years, blending documentary and animation to explore love, guilt, and evolution of relationships.
Synopsis
Amaya revisits four love relationships that have defined her life over the past 20 years, from her first romance at 18 to her present at 38. Grappling with her desire to become a mother, she crafts an audiovisual letter to her future children, weaving together memories that trace the phases of love and the challenges of long-distance relationships, where hope meets frustration and guilt.
Blending documentary footage with expressive animation, the film seamlessly merges the real and the intimate with the creative and symbolic. While personal, Amaya’s journey also resonates broadly, offering an anthropological and political perspective on the evolving role of women in intimate relationships.
Nominated for the 2024 Goya Award, With You, With You and Without Me is a poignant exploration of love, identity, and change is a masterfully crafted work, enriched by its use of animation and personal archives, delivering a heartfelt reflection on the collisions of dreams and realities over time.
Reviews
“Amaya Villar Navascués, the pleasant surprise of the Goya Awards 2024.” — Carla Rogel, Forbes
“A deeply personal female gaze that vindicates the right to defend individuality, to make mistakes, to forgive oneself.” — Esther Molina, Forbes List of the 100 most creative people in Spain
“A film so meta-cinematic and original that the terms to define it are too narrow.” — Gerardo Sánchez (director of Días de Cine) for Madrid for Goya 2024
“A journey into the past and a letter to the future.” — Rut de las Heras Bretín, El País
“The end of love may be the beginning of cinema.” — Arturo Tena, Cine con Ñ
“It's beautiful, it's sad, it's funny, it's exciting, it's hard... It's life made cinema.” — Cinéfilo de Andar por Casa
“A liberating treatise on love.” — Alejandro Ávila, Filmand
“Amaya Villar Navascués: between film editions and emotions, an authentic journey through cinema.” — Nerea Fernández, Desarte Magazine
“An amazing journey through the four love relationships that have defined the protagonist's life.” — Genís Benavent, La Batcueva Show
“A story that touches the heart, that moves to the very depths. Told with a lot of truth, in a very personal way.” — Eva de Iscar (Hada), Directors in the Zoco (Cines Zoco Majadahonda)
“Defining With you, with you and without me is difficult because in a certain way it boxes it in, it limits the artistic project to a label: it is a documentary about affective relationships; it is a narrative montage of real and intimate life experiences over 20 years of life; and it is also a drama about the discourses of oppression that underlie the affective and personal terrain (which is always, effectively, political) of a woman.” — Francesc Miró, Kinótiko
“An interesting and original documentary about love relationships.” — Carmelo Gimeno, Cinemagavia
“The best thing about ‘With You, With You and Without Me’ is the imagination when it comes to creating the scenes, the editing itself.” — Carmelo Gimeno, Cinemagavia
Citation
Main credits
Villar Navascués, Amaya (film director)
Villar Navascués, Amaya (screenwriter)
Villar Navascués, Amaya (on-screen participant)
D'Ursi, Carlo (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography and editing, Amaya Villar Navascués; music, Morgan.
Citation
Cataloging
Pragda subjects
Biography
Cinema Studies
Culture + Identity
Education
Gender + Sexuality Studies
Migration Studies
Sociology
Women
Youth
Keywords
Clips
Festivals
Guadalajara International Film Festival; Giffoni Film Festival; Abycine Festival; Rizoma Festival; (d)Eternal Youth Section; Beholders Internationaal Documentaire Filmfestival Meierijstad
DIRECTOR: Amaya Villar Navascués
NATIONALITY: Spain
YEAR: 2023
GENRE: Documentary, Drama, Comedy, Animation, Romance
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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