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"Colomo's comedy is hilarious.His experience comes across the way he directs his actors, all of them fantastical, and how he keeps up the frenetic rhythm required by a film with these characteristics. Colomo's film talks about the eternal football rivalry, and at the same time, of the rivalry between generations, couples and different social classes. The end is like a script written by Azcona and directed by Berlanga. Colomo makes us laugh and think too."

TIME OUT BARCELONA
Carlos Mir

 

"Fernando Colomo uses again an illustrious tradition of the Spanish and Italian cinema incorporating the comedy in episodes. His main achievements are his gallery of characters interpreted with just enough exaggeration to make them comical without descending to a burlesque caricature. The episodes are skilfully linked and unpretentious."

EL MUNDO
Fernando Marinero


"Built from a fluid writing and from good directing work of his actors, Colomo shows his ironic style to tell a resonant and fragmented story."

EL PERIODICO
Quim Casas

 

"Fernando Colomo does not make films for movie critics. A brazen and cheeky comedy, jut like that (......) the mess of topics of the eternal rivalry between the Madrid supporters and the Barcelona supporters and people from Madrid and Cataluña give rise to easy guffaws."

ABC
E. Rodríguez Marchante

 

"This film shows the author's characteristically soft but deeply nice tone. Mastering daily attitude, language and ridicule."

EL PAIS
Javier Ocaña

 

"According to Colomo, human beings in general, and Spaniards in particular, are really skilful at finding other people's faults, mainly those of our rivals. We imagine life as a football match or a running competition which we must win regardless, and at any cost: Every man for himself!" Stifling father and son relationships, jokes about Catalan people, compulsive lies and restrained violence are the background of Colomo's wildest film."

EL MUNDO
Ismael Marinero

 

"Colomo articulates his fiction as a road-movie and develops a skilfully crafted, resonant comedy of mores. The movie succeeds at setting a pleasant, jovial, carefree and unpretentious tone. Actors embody naturally the grotesque side of their characters and activate one of the main reins of humour."

CONTRAPICADO.NET
Dolores Acebal

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