Contrary to other current comedies and series, David Marqués’ film, ‘In low season’, does not speak of alpha males, but of alfalfa males.
Lovers of Spanish (or Italian) comedies about rogues, ruffians, cheats and lifelong little swindlers are in luck: ‘En temporada baja’ is its successful adaptation for the 21st century. Because there are the four of them, in an austere camping, pissing together (it is already known that Spanish dick…) and attentive so that they do not discover them. Appearances are deceiving, and they even rage when you don’t care.
Contrary to other comedies and current series, David Marqués’s film does not talk about alpha males. If anything, alfalfa males. Of failures in business and in love, who do not see beyond the beers that inflate their bellies. For these hustlers and honest analog bandits, survivors within this cybercrime present, it always rains and pours. What a joy to find four actors so solid and so different from each other (heirs of some characters from Gassman, Mastroianni, Tognazzi and Sordi) in a neorealist fable that knows that poverty, pocket and spirit, intelligent and affectionately shown, can make us laugh complicitly.
For fans of neorealist comedy
DATA SHEET
Directed by: David Marques Distribution: Antonio Resines, Edu Soto, Coque Malla, Fele Martínez, Ana Milán Country: Spain Year: 2022 Release date: 14–4-2023 Gender: Comedy Script: Javier Félix Echániz, Asier Guerricaechevarría, Jon Iriarte, David Marqués Duration: 93 min.
Synopsis: Alberto, “el crack”, is a once successful representative of soccer players who lives in a campsite on the outskirts of Valencia. One day he meets Charly, a divorced policeman who sleeps on the job while trying to win back his ex-wife. Alberto sets up Charly at the campsite and introduces him to his friends. Among all they will try to lean on a supposed camaraderie.
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