A Perfect Couple (1998 film)

A Perfect Couple
Theatrical release poster
SpanishUna pareja perfecta
Directed byFrancesc Betriu
Screenplay byRafael Azcona
Based onDiario de un jubilado
by Miguel Delibes
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
Starring
CinematographyCarlos Suárez
Edited byNicholas Wentworth
Music byRoque Baños
Production
companies
  • Lolafilms
  • Cartel
  • Vía Digital
Distributed byColumbia Tri-Star Films de España
Release dates
  • 29 May 1998 (1998-05-29) (Málaga)
  • 12 June 1998 (1998-06-12) (Spain)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

A Perfect Couple (Spanish: Una pareja perfecta) is a 1998 Spanish comedy film directed by Francesc Betriu from a screenplay by Rafael Azcona based on the novel Diario de un jubilado by Miguel Delibes which stars Antonio Resines and José Sazatornil "Saza". The film proved to be a critical failure and a commercial flop.[1]

Plot

The plot tracks the friendship between a pedantic homosexual poet and an unemployed typographer.[2]

Cast

Production

Written by Rafael Azcona, the screenplay is an adaptation of the 1995 novel Diario de un jubilado by Miguel Delibes.[6] The film is a Lolafilms, Cartel, and Vía Digital production.[7]

Release

The film opened the 1st Málaga Film Festival in May 1998.[2] Distributed by Columbia Tri-Star Films de España,[8] it was released theatrically in Spain on 12 June 1998.[3]

Reception

Casimiro Torreiro of El País wrote that "the film is not a marvel, but among its images there emerges at least a dignity of well-practiced craft that saves it from ridicule".[9]

Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
1998
 1st Málaga Film Festival Best Actress Kiti Mánver Won [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Faulkner, Sally (2013). A History of Spanish Film: Cinema and Society 1910–2010. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 210. ISBN 9781501340215.
  2. ^ a b Márquez, Héctor (30 May 1998). "Betriu abre el Festival de Cine Español de Málaga con una comedia "provinciana" sobre la amistad". El País.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Benavent 2000, p. 446.
  4. ^ Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. p. 446. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.
  5. ^ "Una pareja perfecta". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  6. ^ "Obras de Miguel Delibes adaptadas al cine y al teatro". Más allá de las novelas. Delibes, el cine y el teatro (PDF). Madrid: Comunidad de Madrid. 2021. p. 95. ISBN 978-84-451-3940-0.
  7. ^ "Relación de estrenos durante 1998" (PDF). Banda Aparte (14). ISSN 1138-1981.
  8. ^ "Una pareja perfecta · España 1997". Adaptaciones de la literatura española en el cine español. Referencias y bibliografía. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  9. ^ Torreiro, Casimiro (30 May 1998). "El parado y el poeta". El País.
  10. ^ Márquez, Héctor (7 June 1998). ""La primera noche de mi vida" gana en el Festival de Cine Español de Málaga". El País.