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Official Competition

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Original title: Competencia oficial
Year: 2021
Running time: 114 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Screenwriter: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn, Andrés Duprat
Cinematography: Arnau Valls Colomer
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Oscar Martínez, Irene Escolar, José Luis Gómez, Manolo Solo, Nagore Aranburu, Pilar Castro, Juan Grandinetti, Koldo Olabarri, Melina Matthews, Ken Appledorn, Karina Kolokolchykova, Daniel Chamorro, Stephanie Figueira, Xana del Mar
Producer: Co-production Spain-Argentina;
Mediapro
Genre: Comedy | Film In Film
Synopsis: In search of significance and social prestige, a billionaire businessman decides to make a film to leave his mark. To do so, he hires the best: a stellar team formed by famous filmmaker Lola Cuevas and two renowned actors, both enormously talented, but with even bigger egos: the Hollywood actor Félix Rivero and radical theater thespian Iván Torres. Both legends, but not exactly the best of friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric challenges set by Lola, Felix and Iván must face not only each other, but also their own legacies.

Rankings Position

#68 Best Movies from 2021 (no animation films)
#77 Best Movies of 2021

Awards: 2021: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

Critics' reviews

"Competencia Oficial won’t tickle everyone but for viewers willing to go with the flow, the film serves up roughly two hours of sharp reflections deliciously wrapped in entertaining antics."

Lovia Gyarkye: The Hollywood Reporter
"[A] cheeky, funny, slightly overstretched showbiz comedy (...) The film will certainly mine dark laughs of recognition from industry folk"

Guy Lodge: Variety
"Controlled pacing, visual punchlines, and an insider knowledge of the varied pretensions within filmmaking make this a consistently amusing – if never downright hilarious – vehicle"

Sophie Monks Kaufman: The Playlist
“Official Competition” is essentially a series of light sketches (...) Most of these sketches are amusing, some are ingenious, but they’re nearly all too gentle and predictable to have much of a satirical impact"

Nicholas Barber: IndieWire
"It’s credit to the actors that these characters are still very engaging, for all their flaws (...) Cruz is tremendous"

Anna Smith: Deadline
"Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are a blast (...) If awards season gets up your nose, this playful and wildly entertaining satire on the filmmaking process is the perfect antidote (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Phil de Semlyen: Time Out
"Running just under two hours, the incredibly slight film overstays its welcome"

Ben Croll: The Wrap
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92 My favorite 2021 movies (19)

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