The Spanish Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz and the Argentinian Óscar Martínez star official competition, a satire on cinema, acting and art in which the struggle of egos and the exposure of the actors is shamelessly stripped bare, revealing the “nonsense” of the world, although “in politics there are many more egos”.
“I think that the world of egos exists in any profession, also in journalism, and in politics, I won’t even tell you: you just have to see the moment we are living, which is spectacular,” says Banderas, referring to the accusations within the conservative Popular Party in Spain.
In politics, Banderas believes, “there are many more egos than in our world.”
What happens, he explains in an interview with Eph, is that the actors have “a permanent magnifying glass” on all the activities they do “on and off camera.” All those “nonsense” that are seen in the film “occur due to the insecurity that being an actor produces, because we are very exposed.”
And he says that the actors create “behavior rituals” to attract good luck, which the master of the stage Oscar Martínez confirms by his side.
“I have been in the profession for fifty years and the fear of being exposed is permanent”, Martinez adds. “It is true that it is worse because in the theater it is a leap into the void every night. And the crazy thing is that we all know that it is impossible to repeat what happened the day before”.
For this reason, he appreciates “the opportunity to laugh at ourselves”, which, he considers, “is very healthy”.
The film is based on the whim of a billionaire businessman who wants to make a film to make a mark; To do this, he hires a stellar team made up of the unaffordable filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Cruz), recognized as a worldwide phenomenon, and the two best actors of the moment, owners of enormous talent, but with an even bigger ego.
They are the attractive and seductive Hollywood artist Felix Rivero (Flags) and the radical, meticulous, perfectionist stage actor Ivan Torres (Oscar Martinez), two legends each in their own way, with absolutely irreconcilable characters. The director decides to take them to the extreme, forcing them to perform a series of increasingly strange tests to enter the roles that she has assigned them, until the confrontation between the two becomes unbearable.
“She has an ego and a half,” Cruz declares to Ephfor whom Lola Cuevas is a woman who “is very afraid”: “I always imagined her having dinner on Christmas Eve alone in a luxury restaurant, like ‘I’m fine, I don’t need anyone’, but she’s terrible”.
Cruz loves comedies, although he considers it difficult to get a good script. “It is a very delicate, complicated genre, but having a script like this and the ‘eye’ of these two -Banderas and Martínez-, who see everything and who have such a peculiar, original and intelligent sense of humor, has been a liberation to be able to interpret this crazy person”. Unforgettable wig abundant red curls that identify it.
Directed by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Dupratthe creators of tapes as funny as The man next door or The illustrious citizen, one of the most awarded films of Argentine cinematography, winner of the Goya for the best Ibero-American film in 2017, official competition He leaves no puppet head.
The directors, also authors of the script together with Duprat’s brother, Andrés, have told Eph that for years they wanted to shoot with Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz (who had already worked together in several films by Pedro Almodóvar) and official competition is the result of four years of scripts in which the actors actively participated. “Without them, it would have been another film,” says Duprat.
In addition to the stellar trio, José Luis Gómez, Irene Escolar, Manolo Solo, Nagore Aramburu, Pilar Castro and Koldo Olabarri share the poster. Even though premiered in the Official Section of the Venice Film Festival, the film hits theaters in Spain next Friday, February 25, and in mid-March it will be released throughout Latin America. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
Paul is a talented author and journalist with a passion for entertainment and general news. He currently works as a writer at the 247 News Agency, where he has established herself as a respected voice in the industry.
