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Official Competition
(2021)Competencia oficial 11
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Runtime | 1 hr 55 min |
Premiere: World | $4 732 405 February 21, 2022 |
USA | $593 790 |
Other countries | $4 138 615 |
Premiere: USA | $593 790 June 17, 2022 |
first day | $11 309 |
first weekend | $27 150 |
theaters | 173 |
rollout | 198 days |
Digital: World | August 1, 2022 |
Parental Advisory | Profanity, ... |
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Also Known As | Official Competition (United Kingdom) |
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Critique: 38
An uproarious comedy that’s also deliciously well-performed… this Spanish-language gem cleverly gets away with being both roast session and sneaky...
All three actors are clearly having a blast with this satire of actorly egos and vanity projects, but it’s Cruz who truly dazzles.
Cruz plays their aggressively eccentric director with a perfect blend of oddball, hauteur and deadpan. One of the many joys of this send-up of...
"Official Competition" is nicely balanced, and the poiser-in-chief is Cruz, whose portrayal of Lola goes way beyond simple wackiness.
It dismantles the lofty ambitions of cinema as great, important and significant, a monument on the cultural landscape. Instead, it shows us art for...
Official Competition does indulge in superficial satire, but Messrs. Duprat and Cohn have devised some plausibly, and hilariously, bizarre scenario...
Official Competition appears at first to be a standard movie-business takedown à la The Player, but it has far more faith in the art form than...
As the art of filmmaking takes a punch in the face, audiences will love the pummeling and laugh themselves silly.
This movie-making industry satire is witty, intelligent and saved from potentially unbearable navel-gazing by the warmth, talent and sheer charisma...
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat adeptly keep the comedy deadpan and timed with enough precision to prevent the film feeling like a long sketch from...
This is really one person’s showcase, and whether by design or simply default, Cruz slips Official Competition into her slim-suited pockets and wal...
Seeing Cruz and Banderas show off their comedic chops is definitely a pleasure, and the farcical final scenes will leave viewers on a high.
Offers comic and visual pleasures alike, plus crisp acting from its lead trio…
For viewers willing to go with the flow, the film serves up roughly two hours of sharp reflections deliciously wrapped in entertaining antics.
You know how most of the foreign language movies we get in the US are weighty, meaningful dramas? This one isn’t that. This one’s enjoyably silly.
Wondering just how far this film will go is half the fun, and directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat choose their moments to push the tone from s...
I enjoy that Official Competition really sends up that kind of brooding artist persona.
It’s a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that’s purely Apichatpong.
A coy satire that makes welcome use of biting meta-commentary and self-reflexive critique.
На примере "Официального конкурса" вообще легко объяснять, где проходит грань между жанровым кино и натурально искусством.
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (who also collaborated on the script) have a sharp eye and brilliant timing, and often manage to wring laughs j...
[Cruz] has rarely been stronger on screen, as an idiosyncratic martinet who nonetheless finds moments of genius and tenderness between her leading...
Every line delivery is immaculate, and Cruz in particular, with her ginger frizzy locks, proves that she is a comic behemoth who has too long...
Chronicle humans at their worst… with visual wit and from a wry remove.
Official Competition is another film about filmmaking, but it escapes hermeticism by homing in on actors and acting.
Consistently amusing, if about a reel too long, it’s a tightly controlled, low-boil send-up of the acting process.
Cohn and Duprat are deliberately, deliciously playing into this discussion of talent vs. fame… Banderas gives a sly, knowing performance that...
It’s a very funny film, sending-up human absurdities without being too mean. Cruz is a talented comedian, but she smartly plays it straig...
Controlled pacing, visual punchlines, and an insider knowledge of the varied pretensions within filmmaking make this a consistently amusing&nb...
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Official Competition may be yet another satire on filmmaking, but it’s the rare iteration that’s nuanced enough to...
A mismatched collective of artists and investors make a film for all the wrong reasons in this cheeky, funny, slightly overstretched showbiz c...
In between the comic highlights, the script succeeds in planting some surprisingly revealing insights about the vanities and illusions of the theat...
As much fun as Cruz is clearly having, and that’s a lot, Banderas may be having even more.
The directors offer a light and breezy big-screen hangout, betting that the actors' megawatt charisma will be enough to carry the show. At lea...
In the end, this is a one-joke movie – a shaggy-dog meta-narrative – but it’s not a bad joke.
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Despite the ironic poster and a certain absurdity of what is happening, this is quite a serious picture. The film (almost a play) is about film rehearsals that reveal and transform initially caricatured characters. But the authors are also not averse to laughing at the rich and bohemian. Translated to English
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Very cool, ironic, sarcastic, with a sweet banter over their own industry, over high-browed connoisseurs and narrow-minded consumers :) for moviegoers, most likely, cinema is worth its weight in gold. Others probably won’t appreciate it. Translated to English
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A sitcom with a twist and an unexpected ending. Like a good dessert for a movie buff. Great cast! But the palm from me goes to Banderas, he is incomparable in the hypostasis of an arrogant star, and what manners, and gait! 🕺 Enjoyed watching. Translated to English
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There is something caustically Cohen-esque in this picture… A sort of pamphlet both on the world of intellectual auteur cinema and on the universe of "Hollywood crap": pathos – unfounded and stupid – is more than enough in both. Bright actors in grotesque images. What could be better? Translated to English
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I liked Banderas, he has a real main role here, but Cruz and Martinez do not at all. The movie itself, let’s say, is purely facade. Digging is not very sharp, and not deep. As a set of witty illustrations on all sorts of different topics, the same "This must be paradise" is an order of magnitude better. Translated to English
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An excellently filmed caustic story about the filming of one movie. Unfortunately, the first half is much more promising than the second, where some absurdity begins. Yes, the ending solves, but does not save completely. And Cruz’s hairy armpits I won’t be able to unsee for a long time, brr. Why is this? Translated to English
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Two narcissistic actors in funny situations demonstrate to us the existential questions of their life and professional existence. In this cinematic behind the scenes, the whole trinity shone, but Banderas is some kind of fireworks!) I’m glad of his main role). Translated to English
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An excellent cinephile dramedy that exposes the festival film industry, subtle banter about different types of actors, directors and producers. Gorgeous dialogues, exposing complex cinematic problems, with simple funny humor. It will appeal to those who love cinema as an object of art. Translated to English
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I expected it to be funny, but it wasn’t. The drama didn’t work either. The picture is beautiful, but sometimes too much, such a story is not for the viewer, but about the cinema world for those who live in it. Too eccentric. Translated to English
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Subtle ironic funny. Liked it very much. It seemed to me a symbiosis of two other recently watched films "The Unbearable Weight of a Great Talent" and "Clone". Translated to English