Los Compadres are back, whose misadventures in Andalusia close a trilogy of absurd humor that is seen in the typically Spanish grotesque
The actor, screenwriter and director Alfonso Sánchez, also a playwright, wrapped his head around a decade ago and raised a modest project, ‘The world is ours’, now turned into a trilogy. It was the first feature film financed in part through crowdfunding for these payments. His success allowed the Andalusian filmmaker to position himself on the Spanish audiovisual map, where he already has several films and plays on his back, always surrounded by his trusted team. He via the Internet, together with his fellow sufferer Alberto López, concocted the phenomenon Los Compadres, born as a result of the short film ‘Eso es asi’ in 2009.
His hilarious pieces went viral and visited theaters in the sequel ‘The world is yours’. The comic duo takes up the endearing characters in ‘The world is yours’, the third part of a saga that is still ready to conquer the box office. This installment is more critical than its predecessor, presenting the protagonists immersed in a conspiracy to sell the emptied Spain to the Chinese government. Such a sensationalist premise could be perfectly topical, given the events that devastate the Iberian Peninsula.
In ‘The world is yours’, supposedly the last installment of the series, compadre Rafi is buried by debts, terribly bankrupt, plunged into despair. In his desire to finally hit the ball – determined to sell the Eurofair, a concept that sounds like something to us – he goes to a meeting of high-class people where he finds his former colleague, who has turned his back on him as if he were an ultrabody. Sánchez, director of recent comedies such as ‘Para todo la muerte’ and ‘SuperAgente Makey’, defends himself in front of and behind the camera with his usual ease to unfold a series of bizarre plots and situations that seek the complicity of the public. The film invites the audience to reflect on the basis of a grotesque humor made in Spain, at times lucid, that is not afraid to press the accelerator.
An image of ‘The world is yours’ that refers to ‘La escopeta nacional’ by Berlanga.
The miseries of our current society are exposed between laughter, at times frozen, with some action scenes that merge with the usual absurdity present in the filmography of the head of the show, whose weakness for the master Berlanga is evident. The choral cast, in favor of the work, defends scenes at times surreal that do not hide a certain anger in the message. Completing the main casting are Teresa Arbolí, Carmen Canivell, Mari Paz Sayago, Carlos Olalla, Pedro Álvarez-Ossorio and Alfonso Valenzuela.
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