Joaquin Oristrell has always cooked slowly his admiration for classic comedy. Experimenting with natural ingredients and closer to the heart (add salt with tears; make the stew a bit sour with a French melodrama; sweeten with Lubitsch or Howard Hawks’ humour) than to the fast food recipes/formulas.

Dieta Mediterranea is pure heart of hot emotions and a dish prepared with the best raw materials: a triangle (…) a direct link with Jules and Jim (1962) by Truffaut and the best by Billy Wilder (Sabrina).

Everything is a banquet, a toast to freedom, to the Mediterranean joy de vivre. A cheerful film we could eat it completely.

FOTOGRAMAS
Fausto Fernández

Although Dieta Mediterranea has a quarter and a half of drama, it is a good example of a constant pursuit of intelligent humour (…)

Like Jules and Jim by Truffaut to which Oristrell explicitly pays homage (he is elegant even on this) Dieta Mediterránea is the history of sexual, gastronomic and even commercial ménage-a- trois.

(…) Moments close to excitement, several opportunities to laugh out loud without embarrassment, and a well crafted work by somebody who knows his work.

ABC
Federico Marín Bellón

If  credible and good written dialogues, together with characters who generate empathy with the audience are some of the premises to make a good comedy, this time it has been achieved. Taking the example of the classical American comedy of the golden times, Oristrel draws with his usual skill some 
characters who are neither ridiculous nor artificial.

Dialogues and situations help create a smooth narrative. It is a simple story of vital life experiences supported by outstanding directing and actors. The film overcomes with good marks the difficulties which are part of one of the most complex cinema genres to shoot. Agreeable to the audience,
it shows that just for a smile there is no need to throw a cheap joke. And there is too a laudable homage to the great Truffaut.

TIME OUT BARCELONA
Xavier Sáez

A commercial, competent comedy, a relatively fluid narative, and Oristrel’s brand name witty dialogue. There is a preferential place for the enigmatic Olivia Molina.

EL PAIS
Jordi Costa

Dieta Mediterránea counts with enough brilliant ideas and moments to position  Joaquin Oristrel on the first line of our film directors and of good “commercial” cinema.

CAHIERS DU CINEMA
José Enrique Monterde

Joaquin Oristrel achieves with Dieta Mediterránea a lovely smelling cinematic stew which also breeds commercial success.  The film´s greatest merit is based on the fact that under its seemingly triviality it portrays a vision of the female universe and of their fight to free themselves from male dominance in a society anchored in old macho parameters.

Olivia Molina is simply wonderful in her role of a woman outside the norm. A unique and risky comedy in its development where the visual and thematic craft do not ever fell down.

LA VANGUARDIA
Lluis Bonet  Mojica

An elegant, fresh and funny comedy

CINEANDO
Francisco Bellón Ballesteros

This last comedy by Oristrel is right on. That is the way I felt when I watched Dieta Mediterránea.  I was happy to have tasted a good, well performed comedy that was delivered with fine taste and without ups and downs or pretensions.

Oristrel knows how to extract essences and create nuances. He brings back memories of old movies  when he recreates some of the best known trios of the history of cinema, from Philadelphia to
Jules and Jim.

The group exudes good manners, a rare elegance, both formal and expressive, that rises the soufflé to the right level of sweetness.

CINEMANIA
Toní Vall

An “oasis” in the middle of an offer filled with dramas and tragedies from Hollywood (…) a succulent option seasoned with love and sex for those who enjoy cooking.

EL CULTURAL
Cristina Jaramillo

Slightly better than the average comedy produced in our movie industry. Typical Spanish and Mediterranean.

An entertaining, agreeable, funny, tender and likable film. It is not a comedy that will make the audience laugh loudly but it will put a smile on their face.

Humor, which is present in small doses, is not based on gags or dirty jokes, but on Joaquin Oristrel’s elegant, brilliant and caustic ingenuity. Moreover, the three main characters, specially the fresh and really funny Olivia Molina, together with the supporting actors, performed at a high level.

MUCHOCINE.NET
Francisco Bellón