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Spain 114 Mins Cert 15

5th January 2024 with Post Film Discussion

Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, and Oscar Martínez star in this ingenious, icy behind-the-scenes satire of moviemaking. Having surveyed his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige, an octogenarian billionaire pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) decides to finance a great work of cinema. He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz). Lola seeks to capture the drama of two alpha males vying for the limelight — but it won’t be long before the gambit goes off the rails.

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