“Official Competition” – Let the games begin [MOVIE REVIEW]
When Spanish Pharma billionaire Humberto Suárez announces to his aide that he would like to make something that would solidify his legacy, he mulls over two choices. Number one: a bridge by a famous architect that would bear his name and could be gifted to the country. Number two: a movie. But not just any movie; a great movie that would enter the canon and the world would know his name because he would be the sole producer. Yes, that’s it. A movie! About what? How should he know? That’s why you hire a director and he hires one of the most famous and lauded of them all, Lola Cuevas, to put it all together. For her, he has purchased (at an obscene price) the recent novel by a Nobelist entitled Rivalry. And we’re off to the races. Penelope Cruz as “Lola Cuevas” in “Official Competition.” Photo courtesy of Manolo Pavon and IFC Films. The very hip, avant garde Cuevas, whose films win awards but little box office, has definite ideas and presents a rough outline of her film to Suárez. This is a story about two estranged brothers, Pedro, successful, and Manuel, a wastral, whose paths collide when a car accident, the fault of the drunken Manuel, kills their parents. It is Pedro whose…
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