The Dead Man and Being Happy ( El muerto y ser feliz ) ( The Dead Man & Being Happy )

The Dead Man and Being Happy (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El muerto y ser feliz
Alternate Title: The Dead Man & Being Happy
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min + 91 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Javier Rebollo

Written By:
Salvador Roselli
Javier Rebollo

Actors:
Valeria Alonso ..... Enfermera
Roxana Blanco ..... Érika
Lisa Caligaris ..... Alejandra
Jorge Jellinek ..... Hombre grande
Carlos Lecuona ..... Padre de Érika
Lola Mayo ..... (voice)
Vicky Peña ..... Mujer que ayer fue rubia
Javier Rebollo ..... (voice)
Fermí Reixach ..... Santiago
Jose Sacristan ..... Santos

Synopsis:

For his third feature, the gifted Spanish director Javier Rebollo (Woman Without Piano) has decamped to Argentina and created a literate, screwball road movie that Borges surely would have loved. The 'dead man' of the title is Santos (veteran Spanish screen star José Sacristán), a cancer-stricken hired killer who flees his Buenos Aires hospital bed and sets off on one last assignment. It is a journey that takes him through an interior Argentina rarely glimpsed in movies, from the Cordoba resort town of La Cumbrecita (with its disproportionate-and disconcerting-population of elderly Germans) to the northern province of Santiago del Estero. Along the way, Santos finds himself joined by Alejandra (the wonderful Roxana Blanco), an attractive middle-aged woman who impulsively jumps into his vintage Ford Falcon at a gas station and soon thwarts him from his intended path. At one point, our curious couple stops off at a decrepit beach town described by one of the film's dueling voice-over narrators as 'a strange mix of paradise and apocalypse'-which, as it happens, also perfectly sums up Rebollo's playful and unexpectedly moving reverie on love, death and the open highway.

El Muerto is the story of a Spanish man in Argentina who one day becomes aware on the upper floor of a hospital in Buenos Aires of his approaching death. He decides to escape, to flee towards the north and across Argentina. This last cross has no specific destination. Only matters movement and sensation of extreme freedom, but above all, the feeling to leave behind only the last moment of life. Hit-man of his condition, he is intimate with death. That's why he serenely moves forward her. His long wondering, being similar by many aspects to a modern novel of cavalry. In this paradoxical movement of avoiding death while rushing towards her, he meets a women, she will be his rider. This movie is the story of a hit-man who does not murder. A story of guns that don't do fire, dogs and roads.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 02 October, 2013.

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