 His mother and sister star in the film, and were both nominated for acting Goyas.His third directorial feature was "Kiki, Love to Love", in which he stars and was similarly multi-nominated.For his 2014 film, "Carmina y amén", the "El Confidencial" writer Juan Manuel Fernández suggested that he was becoming "the new Pedro Almodóvar", particularly highlighting the funeral scene that opens "Carmina y amén" and saying it has "a poetry only comparable to" the opening scene of "Volver".