The Weasel's Tale

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The Weasel's Tale
File:The Weasel's Tale poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Produced by
  • Axel Kuschevatzky
  • Muriel Cabeza
  • Pierluigi Gazzolo
  • Gerardo Herrero
  • Mariela Besuievski
  • Juan José Campanella
Screenplay by
  • Juan José Campanella
  • Darren Kloomok
Based on Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
by José Martínez Suárez & Augusto Giustozzi
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Edited by Juan José Campanella
Production
company
  • 100 Bares
  • Telefe / Viacom International Studios
  • Tornasol
  • Jempsa
  • Canarias Cinema 01 AIE
Distributed by
  • BF Paris (ar)
  • Syldavia Cinema (es)
Release dates
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  • 16 May 2019 (2019-05-16) (Argentina)
  • 12 July 2019 (2019-07-12) (Spain)
Country
  • Argentina
  • Spain
Language Spanish

The Weasel's Tale (Spanish: El cuento de las comadrejas) is a 2019 Argentine-Spanish black comedy film directed by Juan José Campanella starring Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni and Marcos Mundstock alongside Clara Lago and Nicolás 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 Martín 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 Bárbara and Francisco, who are real estate developers wanting to purchase the plot.

Cast

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Production

The screenplay was penned by Juan José Campanella and Darren Kloomok, remaking the 1976 black comedy Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic, directed by José Martínez Suárez and written by Martínez Suárez alongside Augusto Giustozzi (es).[2][3] A co-production among Argentine and Spanish companies, it was produced by 100 Bares (es), Telefe & Viacom, Jempsa S.A., Tornasol and Canarias cinema 01, and it had the participation of RTVE and Movistar+.[2][4]

Release

Distributed by BF Paris,[5] the film was theatrically released in Argentina on 16 May 2019.[6] Distributed by Syldavia Cinema,[4] it was theatrically released in Spain on 12 July 2019.[7]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 92% based on 22 positive and 2 negative critic reviews.[8]

Adrian Melo of Página|12 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".[9]

Beatriz Martínez of El Periódico 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".[10]

Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía 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".[11]

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".[12]

Accolades

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result
2020 7th Platino Awards Best Director Juan José Campanella Nominated [13][14]
Best Actress Graciela Borges Nominated
Best Original Score Emilio Kauderer Nominated
Best Sound José Luis Díaz Nominated
14th Sur Awards Best Film Nominated [15][16]
Best Director Juan José Campanella Nominated
Best Actress Graciela Borges Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Juan José Campanella, Darren Kloomok Nominated
Best Art Direction Nelson Luty Nominated
Best Costume Design Cecilia Monti Nominated
Best Makeup Osvaldo Esperón, Sylvie Imbert, Beatushka Wojtowicz Nominated
Best Cinematography Félix Chango Monti Nominated
Best Sound José Luis Diaz Won
Best Editing Juan José Campanella Nominated
Best Original Score Emilio Kauderer Nominated

See also

References

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