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
