Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-THE PERFECT CRIME/EL CRIMEN FERPECTO

Today, we will watch "an almost perfect crime", a comedy from Spain and one of the important Spanish directors, Alex de la Iglesia, who is generally unknown to the general public.

Rafael, our protagonist today, lives for two reasons: to make love and to sell clothes to women. He is a charming and ambitious man who works as a salesman in a large department store. He is certain that he will achieve a very high position in his job, as well as that his successes with women are the cause of the envy of his colleagues. There is, however, an obstacle to his ambition to become a floor manager: a powerful rival, Don Antonio, a much older employee than himself. But the real danger lurks in the presence of an unexpected witness: Lourdes, an ugly and insignificant employee secretly in love with him.

"Crimen Ferpecto" is a pleasant film, with clever jokes and an excellent performance by Guillermo Toledo. The change from lord of Madrid and its women to a frightened petty bourgeois and a subservient to events and circumstances is exemplary. Perfecto we say. But here the term is Ferpecto, and there are also possibilities of error, in this suspicion of the perfect crime that invades his mind. Next to him is Mónica Cervera, whose role is to portray the exact opposite of the female ideal, which in the mind of our protagonist is the definition of success.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st
THE PERFECT CRIME – EL CRIMEN FERPECTO
Comedy, Satire, Thriller | 15+ | 2004 | Es | 105’
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Enrique Villén
21:30 | Vista Marina Hotel | General admission is 5 euros, admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, students and families with many children, and free for under 18s