Despite Everything

Despite Everything
Despite Everything
	Official poster
Spanish	A pesar de todo
Directed by	Gabriela Tagliavini
Screenplay by	Eric Charles Wilkinson; Eugene Rhee; Helen Rhee; Teresa Fernández-Valdés; Gabriela Tagliavini;
Story by	Eric Charles Wilkinson; Eugene Rhee; Helen Rhee;
Produced by	Eugene Rhee; Helen Rhee; Eric Charles Wilkinson; Teresa Fernández-Valdés; Ramón Campos;
Starring	Blanca Suárez; Macarena García; Amaia Salamanca; Belén Cuesta;
Cinematography	Kiko de la Rica
Edited by	José Manuel Jiménez
Music by	Joaquim Badia
Production; companies	Bambú Producciones; Cinephile Pictures;
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	16 March 2019 (Málaga); 3 May 2019 (Spain);
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Despite Everything (Spanish: A pesar de todo) is a popular 2019 Spanish comedy film directed by Gabriela Tagliavini and starring Blanca Suárez, Macarena García, Amaia Salamanca, and Belén Cuesta .^[1] The film premiered at the Málaga Film Festival on 16 March 2019,^[2]^[3] and released on Netflix on 3 May 2019, and was the most watched Netflix Original Spanish Film that year.^[4]^[5]

Plot[edit]

Before the reading of their mother's will, four estranged sisters find out that the man they've known as their father is not and each one has a different father. Their mother, Carmen, left a video testament in which she reveals her secret, and as a last wish and condition of receiving their inheritance tells her daughters to find their biological fathers, providing only the names of her former lovers. However, if one of them chooses not to do so, the inheritance is forfeited for all.

The siblings live separate lives and are opposites of each other. Sara is an accomplished magazine editor in New York City; Lucia, the youngest, is a discontented nonconformist engaging in sexual escapades; Sofía is an artist and lesbian with commitment issues; and Claudia is conservative, hiding that her husband left her and coping with it by popping pills and drinking wine excessively. Compelled to tolerate each other, the four embark on a road trip to procure DNA samples of the men, discover their fathers, and claim their inheritance.

Cast[edit]

Blanca Suárez as Sara
Macarena García as Lucia
Amaia Salamanca as Sofía
Belén Cuesta as Claudia
Maxi Iglesias as Alejandro
Juan Diego as Pedro Domínguez
Tito Valverde as Victor
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba as Padre Díaz
Carlos Bardem as Pablo
Joaquín Climent as Notario
Teresa Rabal as Madre Alejandro
Rossy de Palma as Inés
Marisa Paredes as Carmen

References[edit]

^ "Crítica de 'A pesar de todo'" [Review of 'A pesar de todo']. Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
^ "A pesar de todo". Festival de Málaga (in Spanish). 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
^ "'A pesar de todo', una comedia producida por Netflix para las tardes del domingo" ['A pesar de todo', a comedy produced by Netflix for Sunday afternoons]. Sur (in Spanish). 16 March 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
^ Aguilar, Carlos (29 April 2019). "TRAILER: 'A Pesar de Todo' Is a Road Trip Comedy About Sisters Searching for Their Biological Dads". Remezcla. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
^ "Despite Everything (A Pesar de Todo)". New on Netflix–USA–. 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.

External links[edit]

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[1] "Crítica de 'A pesar de todo'" [Review of 'A pesar de todo']. Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.

[2] "A pesar de todo". Festival de Málaga (in Spanish). 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2020.

[3] "'A pesar de todo', una comedia producida por Netflix para las tardes del domingo" ['A pesar de todo', a comedy produced by Netflix for Sunday afternoons]. Sur (in Spanish). 16 March 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.

[4] Aguilar, Carlos (29 April 2019). "TRAILER: 'A Pesar de Todo' Is a Road Trip Comedy About Sisters Searching for Their Biological Dads". Remezcla. Retrieved 3 August 2020.

[5] "Despite Everything (A Pesar de Todo)". New on Netflix–USA–. 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.

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