Sweet, sometimes dull and certainly overlong.
Madrid, 1987
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Spain · 2011
1h 44m
Director David Trueba
Starring María Valverde, Ramon Fontserè, José Sacristán, Alberto Ferreiro
Genre Drama
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Madrid, 1987 is a two-character story that deals with discourses on writing, journalism, aging, and politics. Mostly shot within a very constricted space, the story follows an older, celebrated journalist Miguel. He meets the beautiful and coy journalism student Angela to give an interview but becomes intent upon seducing her.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
An engrossing two-hander combining the smart-talk microcosm of "My Dinner With Andre" and the sexual dynamics of a Philip Roth novel, David Trueba's Madrid, 1987 is more universal than its title suggests and holds a strong art house appeal.
A perceptive, ultra-wordy stab at catching the zeitgeist at a time of change in Spain, David Trueba's two-hander nonetheless feels like a working-out of social and personal themes that hasn't quite achieved the full leap from page to film.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
Madrid, 1987 operates on a dizzying number of levels - as a romantic comedy, a sex farce, a study of culture clash, ageism and idealism - and the highest compliment you can give this ridiculously talky movie (which plays better if you speak Spanish) is that you're a little sad to see the characters go on their way once they part, probably forever.
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