Spanish Affair (2014 film)

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Spanish Affair
Ocho apellidos vascos poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
SpanishOcho apellidos vascos
Directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro
Written by
Starring
CinematographyGonzalo F. Berridi
Juan Molina
Production
companies
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date
  • 14 March 2014 (2014-03-14)
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
BudgetUS$3 million
Box officeUS$78.7 million [1]

Spanish Affair (Spanish: Ocho apellidos vascos; lit.'Eight Basque surnames') is a 2014 Spanish comedy film directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. [2] It premiered in Spain on 14 March 2014. Six weeks after its release, it became the second biggest box-office hit ever in Spain, behind Avatar . [3]

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Synopsis

Rafa has never left his native Seville in Andalusia, until he meets a Basque woman named Amaia, who resists his seduction techniques. Against his friends' advice, he follows her to the Basque Country after she stays the night in his house and forgets her purse. A series of misunderstandings forces Rafa to impersonate a Basque boasting of a stock featuring eight traditional Basque surnames (Gabilondo, Urdangarín, Zubizarreta, Arguiñano from the father and Igartiburu, Erentxun, Otegi and Clemente from the mother, even though Clemente is not authentically Basque). [4] [n. 1] He gets more and more entangled in that character in order to please Amaia.

Cast

Box office

The weekend of its premiere, the film gathered an audience of 404,020 which resulted in box office grossing of 2.72 million euros. [6] On its second weekend its grossing increased by 56%, third best behind The Impossible and Avatar in its first ten days with a total 4.4 million euros. [7] By April it became the most watched Spanish film in Spain with more than 6.5 million viewers and the second film with the greatest box office grossing in Spain, only behind Avatar , with a box-office of more than 45 million euros (more than 62 million dollars). [8] It has grossed US$77 million in Spain [9] and a total of US$78.7 million internationally. [10] [1]

Critical reception

Critics were divided about the film, but were mostly positive. For magazine Cinemanía , Carlos Marañón stressed that the movie was "extremely funny". [11] This comment was repeated in many reviews that highlighted the film is "funny", [12] and for some, "inspired and bright". [13] Federico Marín Bellón journalist of ABC , spoke of a "brave and timely movie", [12] highlighting another aspect, the opportunity of its theme, which has also been emphasized by most critics who often compared it to the French film Welcome to the Sticks . Writing for daily newspaper El País , Borja Valero even predicted it could be the movie of the year. [14]

On the negative side, Luis Martínez from El Mundo , said that the film is "a bad comedy" [15] while Jordi Costa, from El País, said the development was irregular and ended catastrophically. Fausto Fernández, in the magazine Fotogramas , labelled it as impersonal and described its development as flat. [16]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
201520th Forqué Awards Best Fiction Feature FilmNominated [17]
Best ActorKarra ElejaldeNominated
2nd Feroz Awards Best ComedyNominated [18]
Best Supporting Actor Karra Elejalde Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Carmen Machi Nominated
Best TrailerNominated
29th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actor Karra Elejalde Won [19]
Best Supporting Actress Carmen Machi Won
Best New Actor Dani Rovira Won
Best CinematographyKalo BerridiNominated
Best Original Song"No te marches jamás" by Fernando VelázquezNominated
24th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actress in a Leading RoleClara LagoNominated [20] [21]
Best Film Actress in a Secondary RoleCarmen MachiWon
Best Film Actor in a Secondary RoleKarra ElejaldeWon

Sequels

A sequel, Ocho apellidos catalanes (English: Eight Catalan Surnames) was released on 20 November 2015. Emilio Martínez-Lázaro repeated as director and Borja Cobeaga and Diego San José repeated as screenwriters. The original cast was joined by Berto Romero, Rosa Maria Sardà and Belén Cuesta. [22]

A film with the working title Casi familia ("Almost Family") was released in 2023 as Ocho apellidos marroquís ("Eight Moroccan surnames"). Its cast does not include actors from both earlier films. [23]

Notes

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