Tapas
I saw this on Sunday afternoon and it was suitable snooze fare. This ‘charming’ film from the Barcelona barrio of Hospitalet is a nice enough choral piece about the lives of the locals who have all got something to cover up (tapar) but it never really rises above precisely that – nice. We have the old couple struggling to get by to pay the medical bills and with an uncertain future, we have the two local semi geeks working as stackers at the local supermarket and desperate to get laid and drunk and both, the sexist and difficult bar owner Lolo
, whose wife walks out on him after years of maltreatment and his desperate efforts to save face, we have the single woman getting off on internet. All easily recognisable types, all well portrayed here but all essentially of little interest to us. There are no great revelations or learnings in the movie. People adjust, life goes on and that`s about all there is to it. So, we passed the time and I wouldn`t rate Corbacho and Cruz as the freshest new talents in Spanish cinema, as some suggest. Rather it is Maria Galiana as the old lady who is the freshest thing in this, followed by a nice performance by Elvira Minguez as Raquel and the Chinese cook. When I think of films like Te doy mis ojos – albeit a much more serious film, this falls a long way short.
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