Chippenham Film Club’s November feature

On his 80th birthday, Humberto Suárez (Jose Luis Gomez), an ageing multi-millionaire, decides to finance a film so that people will look fondly upon his legacy. He selects the reclusive Palme d’Or laureate Lola Cuevas (Penelope Cruz) to be the director, with the screenplay being adapted from a Nobel Prize winning novel titled Rivalry, about a man (Antonio Banderas) who is unable to forgive his brother (Oscar Martinez) for killing their parents in a drunk-driving incident.

A 2021 Spanish-Argentine black comedy film, directed by Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn, the film brings together Banderas and Martinez, the two previously appeared together in Almoldovar’s I’m So Excited, and Cruz, who has appears regularly in films by the same director.