With or Without Love
With or Without Love (released as Una hora más en Canarias in Spain and Con amor y sin amor in Colombia) is a 2010 Spanish-Colombian screwball musical comedy film directed by David Serrano and written by Olga Iglesias and Serrano which stars Quim Gutiérrez, Angie Cepeda, Juana Acosta, and Miren Ibarguren.
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| Spanish | Una hora más en Canarias |
| Directed by | David Serrano |
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| Produced by | Tomás Cimadevilla |
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| Cinematography | Carlos Ferro |
| Edited by | Nacho Ruiz Capillas |
| Music by | Ernesto Millán |
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| Language | Spanish |
Plot
Married Claudia, dumped by lover Pablo for Elena, wants to win Pablo back, with help from sister Mónica, without factoring on the possibility of the latter also falling for Pablo.[1][2]
Cast
- Quim Gutiérrez as Pablo[3]
- Angie Cepeda as Claudia[4]
- Juana Acosta as Mónica[4]
- Eduardo Blanco as Eduardo[3]
- Miren Ibarguren as Elena[4]
- Kiti Manver as Daniela[4]
- Diego Martín as Germán[3]
- Isabel Ordaz as Noelia[4]
Production
The film is a Telespan 2000, Lazona, and Dynamo Spanish-Colombian co-production with the participation of TVE and Canal+.[1][5] Shooting locations in Tenerife included Garachico, Icod de los Vinos, La Laguna, El Bollullo beach, the Tenerife South Airport, and Buenavista.[6] Cepeda (from Cartagena) and Acosta (from Cali) agreed on both using a Bogotá accent to pass as sisters.[7] It was released theatrically in Colombia on 5 August 2011 by UIP.[8]
Release
The film premiered at the 13th Málaga Film Festival on 23 April 2010.[9] Distributed by Vértice Cine, it was released theatrically in Spain on 16 July 2010 in 275 screens, with a €262,800 opening weekend.[10] It ended up grossing just over €0.8 million at the Spanish box office.[11]
Reception
Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the "technically polished, fast-moving screwball musical laffer" to also be a "retrograde hit-and-miss fare with a reheated script, a truly appalling score and many failed gags".[1]
Nando Salvà of El Periódico de Catalunya wrote that the film "fails to balance its aspirations as a romantic comedy with its pedestrian and trite attempts to emulate Howard Hawks' screwball comedies or with its orthopedic musical numbers".[12]
Irene Crespo of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting how Quim Gutiérrez reveals himself as the Hugh Grant of Spanish romantic comedy.[13]
See also
References
- Holland, Jonathan (10 May 2010). "With or Without Love". Variety.
- Rivera, Alfonso (22 June 2010). "Una hora más en Canarias". Cineuropa.
- Caviaro, Juan Luis (16 July 2010). "Estrenos de cine | 16 de julio | Tom y Cam asaltan los cines". Espinof.
- "'Una hora más en Canarias', una aproximación al realismo mágico en forma de musical". Europa Press. 22 June 2009.
- Ríos Pérez, Sergio (25 September 2009). "David Serrano pone punto y final al rodaje de su tercer largometraje". Cineuropa.
- "'Una hora más en Canarias', rodada en Tenerife, competirá en la sección oficial del Festival de Cine de Málaga". 20minutos.es.
- "Traición, realismo mágico y humor se mezclan en la película "Una hora más en Canarias" de David Serrano". El Día. Prensa Ibérica. 13 July 2010.
- "La coproducción colombo-española "Con amor y sin amor" llega a la cartelera colombiana". Latamcinema. 6 August 2011.
- "'Una hora más en Canarias' cierra la sección oficial con bailes, canciones y enredos de pareja". Diario Sur. Grupo Vocento. 23 April 2010.
- Brunet, Pau (September 2010). "Pequeñas películas, grandes sorpresas" (PDF). Academia. Madrid: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (170): 49. ISSN 1136-8144.
- Brunet 2010, p. 49.
- Salvà, Nando (16 July 2010). "'Una hora más en Canarias', desequilibrio cómico". El Periódico de Catalunya. Prensa Ibérica.
- Crespo, Irene (16 July 2010). "Una hora más en Canarias". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.