The Mediapro Studio has released the teaser trailer for their forthcoming Spanish comedy feature titled Official Competition, starring Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas. The film currently has no release date attached to it, but it is expected to be selected as part this year’s Venice International Film Festival lineup.
The Official Competition teaser, which you can check out below, features Cruz’s Lola Cuevas as she struggles to direct a film with Banderas’ Félix Rivero and Oscar Martínez’s Iván Torres. In order to successfully make the film, Lola comes up with various out-of-this-world exercises between the actors including making them sit together with a massive rock hovering on top, and wrapping them in a bunch of saran wraps.
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In search of significance and social prestige, a billionaire businessman decides to make a film to leave his mark. To do so, he hires the best: a stellar team formed by famous filmmaker Lola Cuevas and two renowned actors, both enormously talented, but with even bigger egos: the Hollywood actor Félix Rivero and radical theater thespian Iván Torres. Both legends, but not exactly the best of friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric challenges set by Lola, Felix and Iván must face not only each other, but also their own legacies.
Official Competition reunites Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, after previously starring together in 2019’s acclaimed drama Pain and Glory. Joining them are Oscar Martínez, Pilar Castro, and Irene Escolar.
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The film is directed by Argentine filmmakers Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (The Distinguished Citizen) from a screenplay they co-wrote with Andrés Duprat. Executive producers are Cruz, Banderas, Martinez, Laura Fernández Espeso, Javier Mendez, and Javier Pons, with Mediapro Studio’s head Jaume Roures serving as producer.
