With or Without Love
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| Spanish | Una hora más en Canarias |
| Directed by | David Serrano |
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| Produced by | Tomás Cimadevilla |
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| Cinematography | Carlos Ferro |
| Edited by | Nacho Ruiz Capillas |
| Music by | Ernesto Millán |
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| Language | Spanish |
With or Without Love (released as Una hora más en Canarias in Spain and Con amor y sin amor in Colombia) is a 2010 Spanish-Colombian screwball musical comedy film directed by David Serrano and written by Olga Iglesias and Serrano which stars Quim Gutiérrez, Angie Cepeda, Juana Acosta, and Miren Ibarguren.
Plot
[edit]Married Claudia, dumped by lover Pablo for Elena, wants to win Pablo back, with help from sister Mónica, without factoring in the possibility of the latter also falling for Pablo.[1][2]
Cast
[edit]- Quim Gutiérrez as Pablo[3]
- Angie Cepeda as Claudia[4]
- Juana Acosta as Mónica[4]
- Eduardo Blanco as Eduardo[3]
- Miren Ibarguren as Elena[4]
- Kiti Manver as Daniela[4]
- Diego Martín as Germán[3]
- Isabel Ordaz as Noelia[4]
Production
[edit]The film is a Telespan 2000, Lazona, and Dynamo Spanish-Colombian co-production with the participation of TVE and Canal+.[1][5] Shooting locations in Tenerife included Garachico, Icod de los Vinos, La Laguna, El Bollullo beach, the Tenerife South Airport, and Buenavista.[6] Cepeda (from Cartagena) and Acosta (from Cali) agreed on both using a Bogotá accent to pass as sisters.[7] It was released theatrically in Colombia on 5 August 2011 by UIP.[8]
Release
[edit]The film premiered at the 13th Málaga Film Festival on 23 April 2010.[9] Distributed by Vértice Cine, it was released theatrically in Spain on 16 July 2010 in 275 screens, with a €262,800 opening weekend.[10] It ended up grossing just over €0.8 million at the Spanish box office.[11]
Reception
[edit]Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the "technically polished, fast-moving screwball musical laffer" to also be a "retrograde hit-and-miss fare with a reheated script, a truly appalling score and many failed gags".[1]
Nando Salvà of El Periódico de Catalunya wrote that the film "fails to balance its aspirations as a romantic comedy with its pedestrian and trite attempts to emulate Howard Hawks' screwball comedies or with its orthopedic musical numbers".[12]
Irene Crespo of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting how Quim Gutiérrez reveals himself as the Hugh Grant of Spanish romantic comedy.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Holland, Jonathan (10 May 2010). "With or Without Love". Variety.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (22 June 2010). "Una hora más en Canarias". Cineuropa.
- ^ a b c Caviaro, Juan Luis (16 July 2010). "Estrenos de cine | 16 de julio | Tom y Cam asaltan los cines". Espinof.
- ^ a b c d e "'Una hora más en Canarias', una aproximación al realismo mágico en forma de musical". Europa Press. 22 June 2009.
- ^ Ríos Pérez, Sergio (25 September 2009). "David Serrano pone punto y final al rodaje de su tercer largometraje". Cineuropa.
- ^ "'Una hora más en Canarias', rodada en Tenerife, competirá en la sección oficial del Festival de Cine de Málaga". 20minutos.es.
- ^ "Traición, realismo mágico y humor se mezclan en la película "Una hora más en Canarias" de David Serrano". El Día. Prensa Ibérica. 13 July 2010.
- ^ "La coproducción colombo-española "Con amor y sin amor" llega a la cartelera colombiana". Latamcinema. 6 August 2011.
- ^ "'Una hora más en Canarias' cierra la sección oficial con bailes, canciones y enredos de pareja". Diario Sur. Grupo Vocento. 23 April 2010.
- ^ Brunet, Pau (September 2010). "Pequeñas películas, grandes sorpresas" (PDF). Academia (170). Madrid: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España: 49. ISSN 1136-8144.
- ^ Brunet 2010, p. 49.
- ^ Salvà, Nando (16 July 2010). "'Una hora más en Canarias', desequilibrio cómico". El Periódico de Catalunya. Prensa Ibérica.
- ^ Crespo, Irene (16 July 2010). "Una hora más en Canarias". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.