Venice Review: Penelope Cruz & Antonio Banderas In ‘Official Competition’
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deadline.comOfficial Competition (Competencia Oficial) announces its meta intentions with its very title. Here is a Venice Film Festival competitor about the making of a festival film.
Lampooning the very world in which it exists, the Spanish comedy-drama is a highly entertaining entry with winning performances from Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez.
An eccentric director is hired by a wealthy businessman who decides to produce a film, on a whim, based on a prize-winning novel he’s never read.
The fact that this director is played by Cruz is a nice touch, given that such fictional helmers are usually male by default.
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