“Kommunalka” ( Spanish: La comunidad , 2000 ) - the black comedy of the Spanish film director Alex de la Iglesia with Carmen Maura in the title role.
| Communal | |
|---|---|
| La comunidad | |
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| Genre | comedy |
| Producer | Alex de la Iglesia |
| Producer | Andres Vicente Gomez, Marco Gomez |
| Author script | Alex de la Iglesia , Jorge Gerricaechevarria |
| In the main cast | Carmen Maura , |
| Operator | Kiko de la Rica |
| Composer | |
| Duration | 107 minutes |
| Budget | € 4,000,000 |
| Fees | € 6,709,857 |
| A country |  Spain |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 2000 |
| IMDb | ID 0255067 |
Story
Julia ( Carmen Maura ) is a real estate agent assigned to sell an apartment in the center of Madrid . The woman, however, is in no hurry to sell and spends time in the apartment herself.
Over time, she pays attention to the strange behavior of neighbors. It turns out that the deceased once won 300 million pesetas on a sports tote. The whole staircase knows about this, the neighbors even even distributed this money in advance among themselves.
Having guessed the dead man’s code, Julia finds this money and tries to save it from the residents of the house. However, leaving the house is not so easy.
Rewards
- 3 Goya Prizes : Best Actress (Carmen Maura), Best Supporting Actor (Emilio Gutierrez Caba), Special Effects
- San Sebastian Film Festival Award: Best Actress (Carmen Maura)
Filming
According to the authors of the book “Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia,” the idea of the script (neighbors terrorizing a new tenant in the stairwell) was borrowed from the movie “ Resident ” (1976) by Roman Polanski [1] .
They also draw attention to the fact that in "Kommunalka" actors of the cinema, theater and television of the "old school" are shot. According to a quote from the director’s interview in the same book, Iglesia appreciated that these actors “have a rich inner life and they know how to reflect it in their game. That is why there are so many close-ups in the film ” [2] .
Speaking about the moral of the film, Iglesia explained that there are no goodies in it.
In Hollywood films, the main character must always be positive so that people can identify with him. In Kommunalka, I like the fact that the main character is also greedy. Actually, the film is that none of us is completely good. Unfortunately, I have a very pessimistic view of people's behavior [3] .
Original textIn Hollywood cinema the main character always has to be good so you can identify with them. What I really like about "La Comunidad" is that the heroine is greedy too. That's what the whole movie is about - none of us are completely good. Unfortunately I have a very negative point of view about human behavior.
Notes
- ↑ Buse, 2007 , p. 120.
- ↑ Buse, 2007 , p. 122.
- ↑ Jamie Russell. Álex de la Iglesia: La Communidad (February 7, 2003). Date of treatment July 11, 2015. Archived July 10, 2015. (eng.)
Links
Peter Buse, Núria Triana-Toribio, Andrew Willis. La comunidad (2000): modernity and the cinematic past // The Cinema of Álex de la Iglesia . - Manchester University Press, 2007 .-- 210 p. - ISBN 0719071364 . (Google Books)