Date Released : 31 March 2000
Genre : Comedy
Stars : Antonia San Juan, Sergi López, Antonio Resines, Fedra Lorente. Seven "Word Attack" situations involving two people each." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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Seven "Word Attack" situations involving two people each.
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Review :
A recital of acting showpieces
Watching "Ataque Verbal" is much like attending a virtuoso recital of seven Chopin preludes. Each of the seven "arguments" or themes serves to challenge a pair of actors to display their virtuosity. The tension and excitement within each is generated as much by our critical observation of their skills as by the content of the scene's script - like the tension and amazement I felt when I once attended a performance of Sviatoslav Richter and heard him begin a Scherzo at nearly twice the speed most prudent pianists would attempt it - yet the really fast portions were yet to come.
So, here too, we watch and listen and judge and appreciate the skills of consummate actors - above all, ones who work with Albaladejo, whose work I have personally enjoyed immensely, as in Cielo Abierto and Primera Noche de mi Vida.
In regard to the seven themes, my personal two favorites are the following:
- A nocturnal scene beside a park dumpster. Two wacky female custodians
- A scene at the bedside of a high school girl who would appear to be
Okay... I don't want to kill the above two stories by relating their full content - and the other five were also amusing. The last, with a cuban "jinetera" (prostitute) and a Swedish ventriloquist-tourist chatting to each other in a bubble bath is amusing... not to mention another, involving almost entirely a phone call. I think I'd better stop here.
This is a DVD I have watched several times, something in itself rare. Oh, and I'd better mention that my DVD was ordered from Spain, and on mine, English subtitles are available only for a few of the vignettes. In most, they'd be pretty well useless, given the speed of some of the dialog. Moreover, even if one could speed-read subtitles, how can one appreciate the acting at the same time?
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