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About the Film
A beautiful actress from cinema’s golden age, an actor in the twilight of his life, a frustrated scriptwriter and an old director will do the impossible to try and preserve the world they have created in an old mansion, faced with the threat of a young couple who could put everything in danger.
From Juan José Campanella, the director of the Oscar Award-winning The Secret in Their Eyes, comes The Weasels’ Tale (El cuento de las comodrejas), a comedic thriller that stars a bumper crop of well-known older Argentine actors. The film is the story of a group of four long-time friends, including a used-to-be-famous actress, her now disabled husband and an actor as well, who she eclipsed, and the sharp-tongued screenwriter and director of her greatest hits. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple who, feigning to be lost, slowly insinuate themselves into their lives. It’s Sunset Boulevard meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with a Latin twist. Financial gain, seduction, betrayal, and memories run amok are the elements that create the recipe for this delightful game of cat…and weasel.
Press
"Old-fashioned fare with an up-to-date edge…enjoyably over-the-top." – Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter
"A delicious metacinematic black comedy." –El Mundo
"An homage to the golden age of Argentine cinema…with the irony, snappy retorts and humor of Campanella’s filmmaking." –Claritin
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