Rivals (2008 Spanish film)

Rivals (Spanish: Rivales) is a 2008 Spanish comedy-sport film directed by Fernando Colomo and written by Joaquín Oristrell and Inés París. The plot follows an Under-12 Spanish football tournament.[1][2]

Rivals
SpanishRivales
Directed byFernando Colomo
Screenplay byJoaquín Oristrell
Inés París
Produced byLuis de Val
StarringRosa Maria Sardà
Ernesto Alterio
Jorge Sanz
Juanjo Puigcorbé
María Pujalte
Goya Toledo
Santi Millán
Kira Miró
Gonzalo de Castro
Javier Cifrián
CinematographyAntonio Lara
María Lara
Edited byJosé Luis Alcaine
Music byJuan Bardem
Production
company
Media Films Colomo Producciones
Distributed byOn Pictures
Release date
  • 27 June 2008 (2008-06-27) (Spain)
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySpain
Languages
  • Spanish
  • Catalan
Budget€50,000

Plot

When two youth football teams from Madrid and Barcelona with a longstanding rivalry reach the finals of the Youth Spanish Cup, the tension explodes on and off the field. The players from both teams share a bus and hotel with each other and with their coaches (who are in love but hide it), parents, a crazy grandmother, reporters and even pets. Guillermo (played by Ernesto Altiero) and his son Xavier find their relationship tested as Guillermo remembers his own failure to make the championship in his youth, while Xavier chooses his girlfriend over football. In director Fernando Colomo's own words, this is a "road trip movie about human relationships."[3]

Cast

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed Rivals to be a "disappointing" comedy for Colomo.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Rivales (2008) - El cine en". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 2014-01-28.(in Spanish)
  2. Cahiers du cinéma España. Caimán Ediciones. January 2008. p. 49. (in Spanish)
  3. "Rivales - 2008 El Cin En". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  4. Holland, Jonathan (5 August 2008). "Rivals". Variety.


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