#13. Casa de mi Padre - Matt Piedmont In my books, among best films to have been shown at last year's edition was Matt Piedmont's award winning Brick Novax's Diary (parts I & II). Casa de mi Padre - Piedmont's feature film debut as been a lock for a while now (see trailer), my thinking is this knee-slapper with subtitles is looking for the most ideal fest to tickle audiences and get a distributor to budge and pick up this oddball concept of a film that will play better as an indie film than a studio pic. Alumni Park City members Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal star alongside the Funny or Die folk. Look for a Premieres category showing. Update: The pic just got picked up by Pantelion Films with a March 16th set release date. We smell a possible SXSW entry as an alternative fest showing date. Gist: Scripted by Andrew Steele,...
- 11/8/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
No, you're not having a psychotic episode, that really is Will Ferrell speaking Spanish as the lone gringo in an all-Spanish language movie.
Awesome.
After nearly a decade as a leading man, playing drunken frat guys, egotistical racecar drivers, self-important news anchors, ice skating champions, and ex-pimp police officers, you'd think Ferrell had done it all. He even fit a Woody Allen movie in there. Well now he's really going out on a limb as the lead in the nothing-but-Spanish novelty comedy "Casa de Mi Padre," and even we had to slap ourselves hard in the face to prove we weren't hallucinating this brilliance.
Originally announced with a bizarre press release stating that the former "Saturday Night Live" great became attached to the film as the result of a lawsuit, it's actually produced by Ferrell and Adam McKay through their Gary Sanchez shingle, and directed by ex-SNL writer and Emmy-winner Matt Piedmont.
Awesome.
After nearly a decade as a leading man, playing drunken frat guys, egotistical racecar drivers, self-important news anchors, ice skating champions, and ex-pimp police officers, you'd think Ferrell had done it all. He even fit a Woody Allen movie in there. Well now he's really going out on a limb as the lead in the nothing-but-Spanish novelty comedy "Casa de Mi Padre," and even we had to slap ourselves hard in the face to prove we weren't hallucinating this brilliance.
Originally announced with a bizarre press release stating that the former "Saturday Night Live" great became attached to the film as the result of a lawsuit, it's actually produced by Ferrell and Adam McKay through their Gary Sanchez shingle, and directed by ex-SNL writer and Emmy-winner Matt Piedmont.
- 4/15/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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