Last Mondays At the Movies: Official Competition
When
Approximate running time: 1 hour and 54 minutes
Venue
Event Notes
THIS MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN AT ANVIL THEATRE INSTEAD OF MASSEY THEATRE
Arts Council New Westminster and Massey Theatre Present
Official Competition
Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
Having surveyed his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige, an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) decides to finance a great work of cinema. He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz). A visionary conceptualist with a penchant for offscreen theatrics and micromanagement, Lola casts as her embattled co-leads a pair of veteran thespians who couldn’t be less alike: IvánTorres (Oscar Martínez) is a revered educator and legend of the stage much concerned with ethics and artistry, while Félix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) is a glamorous global star known mostly for brainless, bombastic entertainments.
Alternating between exacerbating the actors’ mutual antipathy and uniting them in their discomfort with her psychologically tumultuous rehearsal techniques, Lola seeks to capture the drama of two alpha males vying for the limelight — but it won’t be long before the gambit goes off the rails.
Spain, Argentina, 2021 Spanish with English subtitles 114 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emj0wv7m8E8
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