PREVIEW: Official Competition (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), Antonio Banderas (El Mariachi), Oscar Martínez (The Distinguished Citizen), José Luis Gómez (Pascual Duarte), Pilar Castro (Volver), Irene Escolar (An Autumn Without Berlin), Manolo Solo (Pan’s Labyrinth), Carlos Hipólito (Ninette), Nagore Aranburu (Flowers), Koldo Olabarri (When You No Longer Love Me), Juan Grandinetti (Pinamar)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mariano Cohn (The Distinguished Citizen) and Gastón Duprat (The Man Next Door), directors, writers; Jaume Roures (Midnight in Paris), producer; Eduardo Cruz (Wasp Network), composer; Arnau Valls Colomer (Never Die), cinematographer; Alberto del Campo (Stockholm), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Determined to leave behind a lasting legacy, billionaire Humberto Suárez (Gómez) commissions auteur filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Cruz) to make a smash-hit film adaptation of a best-selling book about two feuding brothers. To play the brothers, Lola hires famous actors Félix Rivero (Banderas) and Iván Torres (Martínez), who themselves have a acrimonious relationship, and as the cast and crew rehearse key moments from the film, their rampant egos and delusional ambitions threaten to derail the entire production…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Hollywood A-listers Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have a ball sending up the wild egos within modern movie-making, in this taut Spanish satire that both mocks and celebrates the current procedures that make smash-hit films.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT EXCLUSIVELY ON CURZON HOME CINEMA

 

Did you like this preview? Want to be updated on all the new releases every week?

Sign up to our e-mail service today, and get our latest reviews and previews sent straight to your inbox!

Search from over ten years of movies here:

Other recent reviews:

Good Fortune (dir. Aziz Ansari)

A guardian angel meddles in the lives of a wealthy entrepreneur and a struggling gig worker…

Plainclothes (dir. Carmen Emmi)

An undercover police officer falls for his latest target…

Tron: Ares (dir. Joachim Rønning)

A super-intelligent program is sent from the digital world to ours for a bold mission…

Good Boy (dir. Ben Leonberg)

A loyal dog witnesses his owner succumb to supernatural forces…

I Swear (dir. Kirk Jones)

A young man with Tourette’s syndrome struggles to live with his condition…

BFI London Film Festival 2025 Reviews: The Secret Agent, Twinless and more!

Our first collection of reviews from this year’s BFI London Film Festival includes write-ups on some of the most anticipated titles from this year’s edition, including Sirât, Left-Handed Girl and others!

Him (dir. Justin Tipping)

An aspiring football player is put through a testing regime by a former quarterback…

The Smashing Machine (dir. Benny Safdie)

Former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr helps usher in a new era for the sport…

The Lost Bus (dir. Paul Greengrass)

A bus driver rescues a classroom from a destructive wildfire…

Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson)

A homeless man attempts to turn his life around…

Optimized by Optimole