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Los abajo firmantes (2003) is a Spanish movie. Joaquín Oristrell has directed this movie. Javier Cámara,Elvira Mínguez,María Botto,Juan Diego Botto are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2003. Los abajo firmantes (2003) is considered one of the best Drama,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. Jorge Ruiz, chosen to replace him, is handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and mistrust in the rest of the cast, especially Mario Soto, the director. Already in the first rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's "Untitled Comedy", the first clash between them occurs. Furthermore, Jorge, at the end of the performance, reads a manifesto in favor of peace, which Mario dislikes. After the first performance of the play in a town, the company meets in the room of Carmen, the leading actress, to watch the Goya awards ceremony together.
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Los abajo firmantes (2003) Reviews
A great militant movie about the war in Iraq, with great actors
Joaquin Oristrell with his actors and his actresses know how they have to talk about the Spanish government's decision to go in Iraq with the George W. Bush' s troops. This is a very intelligent point of view (from the Spanish artists), a debate between the actors themself, with real arguments, with humor, with feelings. I recommend it to know and to understand what Spanish artists and Spanish people can think about the Mr Aznar's decisions. Sorry for my English (I'm french....;-), but I want to say how this type of film is important.
I wish someone had done something like this
Almost a Shakespearean, with play within play, the writers start from the opinion of Lorca's position during the War of 1936 to express a strong disagreement on Aznar's politics, and particularly on his decision to fight the Irak's War with the Americans. Clearly, political opinions are very personal, and one can approve the writers' opinion, or not. However it can't be denied that the construction of this self-made movie is quite good, as it is the use of cameras, fragmented when anguished feelings are present, smooth when in the script everything goes as it should (not very often, though).The actors are also very good, as most of Spanish less famous actors are. They have an excellent use of facial expressions and body language, not to speak of the voice, which is always deep and clearly well trained. I must confess that, being a Lefty myself and an opponent of Berlusconi's government, I purchased this movie mainly because of its content, and I truly appreciated a certain dream in which Bush and Aznar were the only character. I laughed, because Berlusconi could easily take Aznar's place. I only wish that somebody did something like that in Italy too. We need this kind of culture.