Official Competition

When a billionaire entrepreneur decides to get into the movie business, he commissions international auteur director Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz), Hollywood heartthrob Felix Rivero (Antonio Banderas), and titan of the stage Ivan Torres (Oscar Martínez) to collaborate on a cinematic masterpiece. But when these larger-than-life egos arrive for the shoot, they encounter an unexpected series of “rehearsals” created by Lola intended to capture the drama of two alpha males vying for the spotlight, and it won’t be long before the gambit goes hilariously off the rails in this sharply funny showbiz satire awash in egomania and deliciously absurd behind-the-scenes hijinx. (Dir. by Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, 2021, Spain/Argentina, in Spanish with English subtitles, 114 mins, Not Rated)