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Gipsy King
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Wikipedia article
'Gipsy King' is a 2015 Spanish comedy road movie written and directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa. The cast features Manuel Manquia, Karra Elejalde, Arturo Valls, Mara Len, Rosa Mara Sard, Charo Lpez, Pilar Bardem and Albert Pla.
Plot
Two failed and unemployed investigators, Primitivo and Jose Mari (caricatures of the so-called Two Spains), meet up with Gaje, a gypsy scoundrel, pretending to be a bastard son of the King of Spain. They travel throughout Spain to fulfill the mission tasked by Gaje, set on becoming king.
Cast
Production
The film is a RH Cinema and Frgil Zinema production. Shooting began in July 2014 in Vitoria-Gasteiz and surrounding locations of lava, moving then to Madrid, wrapping in the province of Mlaga (including Mlaga and Genalguacil) already by September 2014.
Release
Distributed by eOne Films Spain, 'Gipsy King' was theatrically released in Spain on 17 July 2015.
Reception
Pere Vall of 'Fotogramas' gave a 2 out of 5 stars score, pointing out at an editing full of loopholes, a clutter of badly executed climaxes, overacted performances, otherwise drawing out Arturo Valls' performance from those by the rest of the cast as a positive point.
Carlos Maran of 'Cinemana' rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing about the "supreme" performances by Elejalde and Manquia, nailing what is expected of them, "perverting idioms to the point of paroxysm".
Javier Ocaa of 'El Pas' considered the film's problem to be that, except for the sequences featuring Karra Elejalde and Manuel Manquia (uplifted by a "stupendous" writing by Bajo Ulloa), "almost nothing works", due to the lack of genius andboldness notwithstandingfor being "much less audacious than it appears on the surface".
M.J. Lombardo of 'Diario de Sevilla' noted that while the plot premise could be somewhat amusing and that bringing in a duo of investigators performed by Manquia and Elejalde was not a bad idea, "almost nothing else works organically in this redundant and cumulative road movie".
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2015
References
Category:Spanish comedy road movies
Category:2010s comedy road movies
Category:2010s Spanish-language films
Category:Films shot in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Category:Films shot in Madrid
Category:Films shot in Andalusia
Category:Films set in Spain
Category:2010s Spanish films
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