This is a cute romantic comedy from Spain about a stand-up comic who falls in love with an actor/author in experimental theater. It follows the usual formula of “they love each other – they hate each other – they love each other,” but what makes it clever is that the hate portion of the relationship is acted out while they are on stage together. And they are playing themselves in a play she wrote about their relationship! They try to sabotage each other as much as possible, which ruined the drama, in theory, but ruining the drama actually improved the play. The audience reacted like the audience for Springtime for Hitler – they found the play to be a hilarious comedy, and were really impressed with how realistic the acting was!
Michelle Jenner is the female lead, and she is really a great find, a lovely woman with a great gift for exuberant comedy, ala Meg Ryan. Unfortunately she remains well covered in all the romantic moments, so Maria Hinojosa, as the “other woman,” had to take up the slack. (Not that it’s a bad thing. Maria is gorgeous.)
My video is only DVD quality, but here is a Blu-Ray clip
There is a Mitchell and Webb sketch where they begin to physically assault each other in a Sherlock Holmes play. This is it:
Maria Hinojosa, Andrea Noceda – Miamor Perdido (2019)
If I was the cat I’d give that scene two dewclaws up.
Not to be confused with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of the same name.
(although I’ve never seen them in the same room together…)
thought the same thing, she’s too hot for NPR