This obscure and unknown film deals with Diego (Adolfo Fernández) and Clara (Emma Suárez), they have just met and, they have a crush. They meet, fall in love and quckly decide to move in together, thinking it is a good idea, but things go wrong. They agree to maintain a kind of open relationship, with absolute freedom. They rent a house to a strange landlord called José (Fernando Fernán Gómez). It is in the middle of a big city and is divided into two floors. The old man, José , lives upstairs, and the one downstairs, the one that is rented, has the rare peculiarity of having the walls covered with written messages. The cartoonist Diego gradually becomes obsessed with the subject and discovers that the graffiti are related to each other and that they were written by the man and woman who previously occupied the house.
This "Painted" or ¨Pintadas¨ results to be a very strange film that mixes genres without specifying or indicating which of them predominates, thus creating a mixture that does not fit well. So here there is drama, romance, horror, thriller but the film is not sung by any of them, creating a kind of medley that is somewhat indigestible. The film's novelty is that it was one of the first completely filmed using the steady-cam technique, that is, the camera is attached by means of harnesses to the cameraman who follows the performers throughout the places where it takes place the action. And it is full of "sequence shots", in fact the director Estelrich is a furious admirer of Luis Garcia Berlanga who collaborates profusely with the director's father and also with his son. Emma Suárez and Adolfo Fernández star the couple of lovers, both of whom give enough chemistry between them, adding some strong love scenes. Accompanied by the always great Fernando Fernán Gómez as the renter who keeps dark secrets of his outlandish existence . His role has remarkable resemblance to the one he starred in ¨El Anacoreta¨ directed by Juan Estelrich Sr, father of the director of ¨Pintadas¨, Juan Estelrich Jr. And brief interpretations of other familiar actors, such as: Ágata Lys, Lita Claver 'La Maña', Enrique San Francisco, Pedro Beltrán, Charly Bravo, Tony Zenet and Jesús Castejón.
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Juan Estelrich Jr and Nominated Best Film International Competition (1997) . Juan Estelrich Jr is a good writer, director assistant, producer and filmmaker. He is best known for his work as an assistant director on such films The Shell seekers, Jarrapellejos, Marine, Empire of the sun, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Eleni, Los desastres de la guerra. And directing a few films such as Bombay Goa Express and La via láctea with Mickey Rooney. Rating: 5/10. Average. Acceptable and passable but only for Emma Suárez and Fernando Fernán Gómez fans.
This "Painted" or ¨Pintadas¨ results to be a very strange film that mixes genres without specifying or indicating which of them predominates, thus creating a mixture that does not fit well. So here there is drama, romance, horror, thriller but the film is not sung by any of them, creating a kind of medley that is somewhat indigestible. The film's novelty is that it was one of the first completely filmed using the steady-cam technique, that is, the camera is attached by means of harnesses to the cameraman who follows the performers throughout the places where it takes place the action. And it is full of "sequence shots", in fact the director Estelrich is a furious admirer of Luis Garcia Berlanga who collaborates profusely with the director's father and also with his son. Emma Suárez and Adolfo Fernández star the couple of lovers, both of whom give enough chemistry between them, adding some strong love scenes. Accompanied by the always great Fernando Fernán Gómez as the renter who keeps dark secrets of his outlandish existence . His role has remarkable resemblance to the one he starred in ¨El Anacoreta¨ directed by Juan Estelrich Sr, father of the director of ¨Pintadas¨, Juan Estelrich Jr. And brief interpretations of other familiar actors, such as: Ágata Lys, Lita Claver 'La Maña', Enrique San Francisco, Pedro Beltrán, Charly Bravo, Tony Zenet and Jesús Castejón.
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Juan Estelrich Jr and Nominated Best Film International Competition (1997) . Juan Estelrich Jr is a good writer, director assistant, producer and filmmaker. He is best known for his work as an assistant director on such films The Shell seekers, Jarrapellejos, Marine, Empire of the sun, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Eleni, Los desastres de la guerra. And directing a few films such as Bombay Goa Express and La via láctea with Mickey Rooney. Rating: 5/10. Average. Acceptable and passable but only for Emma Suárez and Fernando Fernán Gómez fans.