Dying Beyond Their Means
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| Spanish | Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades |
| Directed by | Isaki Lacuesta |
| Screenplay by | Isaki Lacuesta |
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| Edited by | Domi Parra |
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| Distributed by | Versus Entertainment |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Dying Beyond Their Means (Spanish: Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades) is a 2014 Spanish satirical comedy film written and directed by Isaki Lacuesta. It features an ensemble cast.
Plot
[edit]Upon being interned in a psychiatric hospital, five citizens whose lives were thwarted by economic crisis concoct a plan to kidnap the president of the Central Bank to get things back to the way they used to be.[1][2]
Cast
[edit]- Raúl Arévalo as Miguel[3]
- Julián Villagrán as Julio[4]
- Iván Telefunken as Iván[5]
- José Coronado as José Javier[3]
- Albert Pla as Albert[3]
- Josep Maria Pou as Faustino Lorenzo[5]
- Jordi Vilches as Jordi[6]
- Ariadna Gil as directora[3]
- Carmen Machi[3]
- Bárbara Lennie[3]
- José Sacristán[3]
- Ángela Molina as camarera[3]
- Eduard Fernández as locutor de televisión[3]
- Sergi López[3]
- Emma Suárez as Ana[3]
- Imanol Arias[7]
- Bruno Bergonzini[7]
- Àlex Monner[7]
- Pau Riba[7]
- Jaume Sisa[7]
- Luis Tosar[7]
Production
[edit]The film is an Alicorn Films, La Termita Films, Sentido Films, Versus Entertainment and La Panda de Morosos production.[8]
Release
[edit]The film premiered at the 62nd San Sebastián International Film Festival on 25 September 2014 in a non-competitive slot.[9] Distributed by Versus Entertainment,[2] it was released theatrically in Spain on 24 April 2015.
Reception
[edit]Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter welcomed the "commendably brave and wildly unexpected career curveball" by Lacuesta with the "cockeyed" comedy film, underscoring as a bottomline that the "tartly topical satire takes wobbly aim at easy targets".[10]
Pere Vall of Fotogramas rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, singling out its "central quintet, its tone swifts, and its mix of humor and pamphlet" as the best things about the film.[11]
Carlos Boyero of El País lamented that, with the film, he felt "directly assaulted by embarrassment, that ungrateful feeling of cringe".[12]
Sergio F. Pinilla of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, writing that despite the astonished reaction of a part of the critics, "the experiment works" with Lacuesta's irreverent humor managing to [both] surprise and offend.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Lacuesta: "la millor forma de reflectir Espanya és l'esperpent"". Diari de Girona. 16 April 2015.
- ^ a b c Pinilla, Sergio F. (20 April 2015). "Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (21 April 2015). "Los estrenos del 24 de abril. 'Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades'. Humor surrealista frente a la crisis". Aisge.
- ^ Altarriba Vilanova, Guillermo (2016). Esculpir el tiempo (de crisis). Construcciones fílmicas sobre la recesión económica global (PDF).
- ^ a b Altarriba Vilanova 2016, p. 67.
- ^ Altarriba Vilanova 2016, p. 70.
- ^ a b c d e f "Festival de San Sebastián 2014 Murieron por encima de sus posiblidades". rtve.es. 12 September 2014.
- ^ ""Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades" i "Cómo sobrevivir a una despedida" arriben als cinemes". Acadèmia del Cinema Català. 17 April 2015.
- ^ Vallín, Pedro (26 September 2014). "Festival de San Sebastián: Del amor y del reloj". La Vanguardia.
- ^ Young, Neil (1 October 2014). "'Dying Beyond Their Means' ('Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades'): San Sebastian Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Vall, Pere (17 September 2015). "Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades". Fotogramas.
- ^ Boyero, Carlos (26 September 2014). "¡Ay, qué risa, Isaki Lacuesta!". El País.