Movistar · Film & series · 2020

El día menos pensado

Original music
Reseda Estudio (Tomás Virgós and Pablo Serrano)
Director
José Larraza, Marc Pons
Production company
Telefónica Broadcast Services

Documentary series that followed the Movistar Team through the 2019 UCI World Tour season, filmed over eight months across Europe and Latin America. Directed by José Larraza and Marc Pons, it premiered on Movistar+ and Netflix in 2020.

The music brings in the epic scale and almost ritual seriousness of competitive cycling, together with the moments of solitude on the bike set against the collective life of the team. It travels the arc from the rider’s most intimate inner monologue to the epic of endurance seen from outside.