QUeast evening at 9.20 pm in the first view on Rai 3 A film that tells the world of cinema in a fun and merciless way. Surprise final – Official Competition And written and directed by the Argentines Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat and played by Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez In the roles of a director and two stars on the verge of a creative nerves crisis. A choral work, candidate for the golden lion in Venice 2021which puts all the manias, whims, madness and cynicism hidden behind the scenes of the films with the sedan.
Surprise endingthe plot of the film tonight on Rai 3
An elderly magnate of the pharmaceutical has decided to produce a movie to be left to posterity. After purchasing the rights of the book of a Nobel Prize without even reading it, Choose to manage the film to Lola (Penélope Cruz), young very quoted Indie director. The novel, set in the seventies, speaks of two brothers, Manuel and Pedro. Manuel, drunk, causes a car accident in which parents die. Denounced by his brother to the police, he ends up in prison. The years pass: Pedro has a stable relationship with a prostitute of a brothel. When Manuel comes out of Galera, his brother’s girlfriend meets several times. He learned that the woman is waiting for a child, Manuel does not give peace. Is it his or Pedro? Stunned by the doubt, he presents himself to the couple’s door: the two brothers embrace each other.
Lola has very clear ideas both at the end of the film, both on the choice of the cast. Has decided to hire Two of the best actors around. Manuel will be the Spaniard Felix (Antonio Banderas), international blockbuster staradored by the public. Pedro, on the other hand, will be the Argentine Ivan (Oscar Martínez) a serious interpreter, Very busy at the theater and in politics, a real intellectual.
The two could not be more different. Felix is a serial latin lover: He has 5 children of 4 ex -different wives, and he cannot help seducing every woman. He takes care of his appearance and clothing in a maniacal way and is perpetually late due to his multiple commitments. A man full of himselfwhose maximum aspiration is to win an Oscar. He has an assistant, Dario, forced to obtain him also in the desert ecological macrobiotic food without gluten “made in Spain”.
Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Oscar Martínez in “Surprise Final” (Lucky Red)
Surprise ending: an accident, a twist and one (in) worthy conclusion
Ivan has been married for over 20 years with Violeta, One – Little happened – writer of children’s books. Wear complete velvet completes like an ex -sixtyotine. He never travels in the first class because he finds him Cafone It is little respectful towards those who cannot afford it. And if fElix recites instinctivelyconvinced that it is enough to wear a shirt and stethoscope to be credible as a doctor, Ivan demands to build his character starting from childhood. One cannot cry on command because he must feel the emotion from the deep. The other uses menthol and thinks of a deceased aunt.
Lola takes advantage of their differencescauses them to the spasm in order to make the conflict between brothers as real as possible. His way of directing is quite original, not to say crazy. It forces them to try under a large boulder kept out of suspended from a crane. He binds them with plastic wrap like Siamese twins to make them feel united and then shredd their prizes to tone their ego.
This bizarre choice amplifies problems and their neuroses. Felix confides that he is always late because he is taking care of pancreas cancer and to have a year at a maximum of life. Lola seems sorry but on the first occasion he anticipates the filming for fear of not being able to finish the film. When it reveals that he is not really sick and that he had made fun of them For revenge, SCARZI increase. During the start -up party, an incredible accident risks blocking everything. Lolawith a stroke of genius and cynicism, He manages to bend events in his favor, changing the ending incrediblely. But Is this really this, the real conclusion?
Surprise endingthe review
When does a movie really ends? When do the lights go out? Or do you continue indefinitely in the spectators’ comments? After the artist And My masterpiecethe couple of authors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat rewind their anthropological study on the meaning of art staging neurosis, competition and cynicism of the world of cinema. A universe populated with talent and hypocrisy, of content and of total void, a path in continuous contradiction where behind masterpieces there are mean characters, low shots, envy, recommendations and seduction games “do ut des”.
In Lola there are all the hypocritical clichés of the sensitive artist, passionate and temperamentalwith behaviors from torturer, cHe dominates his lovers and finds every questionable pretext in the name of his total art. Felix and Ivan are the two sides of the same medal: different ways of dealing with acting, the same hypertrophic ego impossible to remedy.
Faced with this intriguing and not entirely original theme, The authors carve out a pleasant space of refined badness. A film within the film, capable of creating three characters who are three magnificent prototypes of the varied cinematographic fauna.
Penélope Cruz in “Surprise Final” (Lucky Red)
The cast: Penélope Cruz in a comic and amazing version
The added valuewhat allows you to avoid farce tones while remaining always credible is undoubtedly the choice of A magnificent cast. Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez (The illustrious citizen) I am A close -knit trio that meets, collides by bringing out the best from the characters. Cruz He manages in a admirable way to make his interpretation never excessive and always credible: Perhaps the best role of his career. The scenes with Banderas are the most successful: it is wonderful that they have waited so much to recite together in a whole film.
If Banderas, in the role of a star vanity and full of vices, amuses and enjoys to make ironing on its same path as an international star, Martínez’s bourgeois intellectual hypocrite is the most explosive presence. The portrait of this cerebral ideologist, who He never mixes with commercial operations but secretly envy Felix For its millionaire cachets and for the warmth of a vast audience, it is so perfect that it seems like a documentary. A man who has never learned English for snobbery And he would like to win an Oscar just to refuse itaccusing the Americans of having rewarded him to give a “Latin” touch to the evening. A brilliant interpretation.