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Dias de Futbol

Spain 2003
directed by David Serrano
starring Ernesto Alterio, Alberto San Juan, Fernando Tejero, Pere Ponce, Natalia Verbeke, Marie Esteve, Roberto Alamo, Luis Bermejo, Secun de la Rosa, Nathalie Poza, Pilar Castro, Lola Duenas, Eva Santolaria, Diego París, Diego Martín

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Coming out of prison, where he has been treated for outbursts of anger, Antonio (Ernesto Alterio)has the weird udea of studying to become a psychotherapist, but to make a living he has to drive a cab - which he does surprisingly well despite not having a driver's license. He also hooks up with his old friends again, & tries to sort their problems out (without being asked of course) ...

- Ramon (Roberto Alamo) can't really come to terms with his wife Carla's (Maria Esteve) pregnancy, not made any better by the fact that he has contracted something from a hooker & thus doesn'T dare to have sex with her anymore.
- Gonzalo (Secun de la Rosa) studies the law, but only with moderate success, & still lives at his mother's
Miguel is a cop, but wants to give up patrolling to become a singer with a message. Unfortunately he lacks any talend.
Charlie (Pere Punce) is an up-&-Coming moviestar, but his feature film debut is postponed as the production company cannot find a trained piglet (really).

... but when Antonio's best friend Jorge (Alberto San Juan) is left by his girlfriend Violeta (Natalia Verbeke) - incidently Antonio's sister -, Antonio sees his first real psychotherapeutic mission: All of the friends - plus Antonio's gangster-friend Serafin (Fernando Tejero) - have to become a soccer team to play (& win) in some amateur league, to give Jorge back the feeling of success. Jorge (ignorant that the team is supposed to be therapy for him) agrees, as he thinks the feeling of success would be great therapy for Antonio.

Problem of course is, all of the friends are in their 30's, by normal standards too old for the sport, & furthermore miserable at playing soccer.

But a series of defeats doesn't stop Antonio, as he tries about anything to keep up their morale, from stealing soccer shirts for them (incidently with Brazil printed on their fronts, thus the team becomes Brazil) to all sorts of massive cheating, from hidden fouls to bribing the ref - all to little avail, bzut Antonio can't be stopped in helping his friends, so he steals a piglet for Charlie's movie (only to later learn the piglet-story was just an elaborate lie to impress his friends & above all chicks), has Serafin threaten Gonzalo's teachers, & he even meets his old love again, Macarena (Lola Duenas), who proves to be still in love with him. 'Even Jorge seems to get better, as he starts to date Barbara (Pilar Castro), who is crazy for wild sex on the oddest places. But there are also setbacks, as Miguel temporarily loses his baby son at the football grounds & is thrown out by his wife Patricia (Nathalie Poza), and Antonio ultimately fails his own psychology exam.

However, it all ends happily, as Antonio marries Macarena, & the ceremony is interrupted by a game of soccer, the first our heroes win - albeit by massive cheating.& after the match, at the celebration, all the couples are reconciled again: Ramon can accept Carla's pregnancy, Patricia realizes how much she needs Miguel, & even Violeta tells Jorge she still loves him.

 

An unspectacular but still immensely funny comedy, that - apart from the kitsdch finale where all the couples are reconciled - never falls for the clichés comedies of this kind usually fall for: This is not the story of a miserable socc4er team that rises to fame because they have always believed in themselves/their goals (here, they only win by massive cheating in the end, & only one otherwise unimportant match), & Antonio hasn'T become a successful psychologist in the end because he has fought the odds (here he simply fails his exam because they were asking questions that were not in his book). That the movies actors make up a first class ensemble of characters of course helps the movie as well.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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