Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Oscar Martínez, the protagonists of the film.
official competitionthe film directed by Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn and protagonist Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez had its first commercial in the United States, achieving excellent results. In just three days and in four rooms in New York and Los Angeles he had a collection of $ 34,000an average of $ 8,400 per room.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and screened for the first time in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, will expand its premiere next week in Boston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, before reaching all of the United States on July 1.
The film received excellent reviews from the American media. Moreover, New York Times expressed that “Oscar Martínez, Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas give an acting lesson. Duprat and Cohn keep the narrative in a tone of great farce with eruptions of large doses of sentiment.
Martinez, Cruz and Banderas “take an acting lesson,” the New York Times said in its review.
The New Yorker he stated that “the framing is super precise, the emotional peaks are handled very well and there is a glorious gag involving a giant rock that it would have been the pride of the master Jaques Tati“.
Last week, before the film’s commercial premiere, Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn and Andrés Duprat were present together with Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas on the red carpet of the Tribeca Film Festival in New Yorkwhere the film was acclaimed at its first screening.
The Tribeca Festival was founded by legendary actor Robert De Nirowho shot weeks ago in Buenos Aires for the five-episode series called Whateverwritten and directed by Duprat and Cohn themselves, with Luis Brandoni, where De Niro makes a special participation in the first four episodes and is the guest star in the last chapter.
Directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn continue with their usual acid gaze wherever they focus. Photo Martin Bonetto
The plot
In search of transcendence and social prestige, a billionaire businessman decides to make a film that will leave its mark. To do this, hire the best: a stellar team formed by the famous director Lola Cuevas (Penelope Cruz) and two famous actors, holders of enormous talent, but with an even greater ego …
Hollywood actor Felix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) and the radical theatrical actor Ivan Torres (Oscar Martinez). They are both legends, but not really best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric tests posed by Lola, Félix and Iván are confronted not only with each other, but also with their own legacy.
Robert De Niro, the “host” at the Tribeca Festival, a few days ago, with Al Pacino before the screening of “Heat”. AP photo
to the slaps
On March 17, after its premiere in Argentina, the critics of Clarionehe highlighted it thus: “The cinema of shock, of slaps is that of Cohn and Duprat. They give priority to slaps both the protagonists and the audience, as if trying to get them out of sleepiness, from habit, from what is already ascertained or ascertained, as Lola does with Felix and Ivan.
“It’s a story where power games, honest or not, are up there, at the center of the interrogation. ‘You drag yourself even for money, just for less than me,’ Banderas’ character defends himself from Martinez’s attacks. The journeys are constant, sharp, the dialogues are punctual, precise, they have nothing advanced or missing.
All consecrated stars, the actors are known to have contributed experiences in previous filming, situations that could border on the ridiculous they experienced with other castmates. so that the evidence, which is really the focus of the film, is the funniest, most surprising and, again, destabilizing“said the critic of Pablo Scholz.
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Source: Clarin
