“Official Competition” (Spain-Argentina 2021)
Jun 29, 2022 18:09:01 GMT
rudeboy and stryker like this
Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 29, 2022 18:09:01 GMT
Directed by the Argentinian duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, who also made “The Distinguished Citizen” in 2016. Presumably with the (relative) success of that movie doors were opened for them to make this “bigger” film with international stars Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas.
It’s a satirical look at the film industry. A wealthy industrialist with no previous involvement in the business decides to produce a film just for the prestige. He buys the rights to a novel by a Nobel Prize winner, hires an award-winning director (Penelope Cruz) to adapt it, and tells her to get “the best actors” to star in it. She hires two actors with diametrically opposed attitudes towards the craft (Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez). Then the three get together for rehearsals, and the conflicts start. It is very funny in its (obviously exaggerated) depiction of movie types – the phoniness, the inflated egos, the pretentiousness.
Highly recommended to anyone who likes movies about making movies. I saw it on the big screen, but I suppose it won’t get a very wide distribution outside major cities. Hopefully it will come to a streaming service at some point.
It’s a satirical look at the film industry. A wealthy industrialist with no previous involvement in the business decides to produce a film just for the prestige. He buys the rights to a novel by a Nobel Prize winner, hires an award-winning director (Penelope Cruz) to adapt it, and tells her to get “the best actors” to star in it. She hires two actors with diametrically opposed attitudes towards the craft (Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez). Then the three get together for rehearsals, and the conflicts start. It is very funny in its (obviously exaggerated) depiction of movie types – the phoniness, the inflated egos, the pretentiousness.
Highly recommended to anyone who likes movies about making movies. I saw it on the big screen, but I suppose it won’t get a very wide distribution outside major cities. Hopefully it will come to a streaming service at some point.
