![]() Playing the no-good drunken brother is Félix Rivero (Antonio Banderas), a global movie star with a mega-watt smile, but a bit dim in the brains department. Lola’s casting tactic is to hire two actors from different worlds in the leads. She plays eccentric director Lola Cuevas, who is starting rehearsals for her new film: an adaptation of a prize-winning novel about the rivalry between two brothers. Wearing a massive curly wig – made from saucepan scourers, it looks like – Cruz lets rip with a deliciously fun performance. Well, with this playful satire of the movie industry, Argentinian film-making duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat give her all the power in the role of a borderline tyrannical auteur with a bonkers streak (think Marina Abramović or maybe even Björk). Cruz is most famous for her working relationship with Pedro Almodóvar often she’s described as his muse – demeaningly, I think. I t’s clever casting – and very entertaining – to put screen goddess Penélope Cruz in the role of a superstar film director.
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