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Wikipedia article
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'The Weasel's Tale' is a 2019 Argentine-Spanish dark comedy film directed by Juan Jos Campanella starring Graciela Borges, Oscar Martnez, Luis Brandoni and Marcos Mundstock alongside Clara Lago and Nicols Francella. It is a remake of 1976 film 'Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic'.
Plot
The plot follows four aged people living in an old mansion (Mara, Pedro and Martn and Norberto), all of them professionally related to the showbiz (respectively lead actress, bit-part actor, screenwriter and director) and how they deal with the arrival of the young Brbara and Francisco, who are real estate developers wanting to purchase the plot.
Cast
Production
The screenplay was penned by Juan Jos Campanella and Darren Kloomok, remaking the 1976 black comedy 'Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic', directed by Jos Martnez Surez and written by Martnez Surez alongside . A co-production among Argentine and Spanish companies, it was produced by , Telefe & Viacom, Jempsa S.A., Tornasol and Canarias cinema 01, and it had the participation of RTVE and Movistar+.
Release
Distributed by BF Paris, the film was theatrically released in Argentina on 16 May 2019. Distributed by Syldavia Cinema, it was theatrically released in Spain on 12 July 2019.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 92% based on 22 positive and 2 negative critic reviews.
Adrian Melo of 'Pgina12' considered that the film "misses the homoerotic provocation and sexual ambiguity of the original version" offering instead "a fable with too many morals and a whiff of social darwinism".
Beatriz Martnez of 'El Peridico de Catalunya' rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that Campanella directs "a twisted, bizarre and macabre story where he reflects human miseries".
Andrea G. Bermejo of 'Cinemana' also gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, underscoring it to be "a black comedy that shines much more in the script than in the direction", also considering that even if predictable, the ending is "no less enjoyable".
Jonathan Holland of 'The Hollywood Reporter' presented the film as a "slickly calibrated, classically structured dark comedy" summing up as a bottom-line "old-fashioned fare with an up-to-date edge".
Accolades
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| align = center rowspan = "15" | 2020 || rowspan = "4" | 7th Platino Awards || Best Director || Juan Jos Campanella || || rowspan = "4" |
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| Best Actress || Graciela Borges ||
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| Best Original Score || Emilio Kauderer ||
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| Best Sound || Jos Luis Daz ||
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| rowspan = "11" | 14th Sur Awards || colspan = "2" | Best Film || || rowspan = "11" |
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| Best Director || Juan Jos Campanella ||
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| Best Actress || Graciela Borges ||
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| Best Adapted Screenplay || Juan Jos Campanella, Darren Kloomok ||
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| Best Art Direction || Nelson Luty ||
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| Best Costume Design || Cecilia Monti ||
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| Best Makeup || Osvaldo Espern, Sylvie Imbert, Beatushka Wojtowicz ||
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| Best Cinematography || Flix Chango Monti ||
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| Best Sound || Jos Luis Diaz ||
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| Best Editing || Juan Jos Campanella ||
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| Best Original Score || Emilio Kauderer ||
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See also
* List of Argentine films of 2019
* List of Spanish films of 2019
References
Category:Remakes of Argentine films
Category:Spanish remakes of Argentine films
Category:Argentine black comedy films
Category:Spanish black comedy films
Category:2019 black comedy films
Category:2010s Spanish-language films
Category:Tornasol Films films
Category:2010s Spanish films
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