Tapas (2005)

Directors:

José Corbacho
Juan Cruz

Writers:

José Corbacho (writer)
Juan Cruz (writer)

Release Date:

13 May 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

The small, everyday stories of a group of neighbours who live in a suburb of Barcelona, and the little secrets that they hide. |

Plot Keywords:

Apartment Building | Terminal Illness | Multiple Story Line | Older Woman Younger Man | Fat Man

Awards:

9 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Ángel de Andrés López	...	Lolo (Manolo) (as Ángel de Andrés)
María Galiana	...	Doña Conchi
Elvira Mínguez	...	Raquel Merino
Rubén Ochandiano	...	César
Alberto de Mendoza	...	Don Mariano
Darío Paso	...	Opo
Alberto Jo Lee	...	Mao
Amparo Moreno	...	Rosalía
Anna Barrachina	...	Águeda
Blanca Apilánez	...	Carmen
Pilar Arcas
Rosario Pardo	...	Carmela
Cecilia Rossetto	...	Clienta super
Ferran Adrià	...	Himself
Eduardo Blanco	...	Edgardo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Raúl Cimas	...	Cliente (as Raúl Cimas Navarro)
Jordi Évole	...	Guardia urbano 1
David Fernández	...	Masón 2
Santi Millán	...	(scenes deleted)
Mònica Pérez	...	Guardia urbano 2
Jordi Rovira
Eduard Soto	...	Masón 1

Directed by
José Corbacho
Juan Cruz

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
José Corbacho		writer
Juan Cruz		writer

Produced by
Josep Amorós	....	line producer
Carlos Fernández	....	executive producer
Julio Fernández	....	producer
Guillermo Granillo	....	co-producer
Luisa Matienzo	....	executive producer
Luisa Matienzo	....	producer
Mónica Roza	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Pablo Sala

Cinematography by
Guillermo Granillo

Film Editing by
David Gallart
Liliana Nadal

Casting by
Irene Roqué

Art Direction by
Mireia Carles

Costume Design by
Toni Martín

Makeup Department
Pepa Navas	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Liliana Nadal	....	post-production producer
Carlos Piwowarski	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Josep Maria Arbusí	....	first assistant director
Aina Carbó	....	third assistant director
Francesc Prat	....	second assistant director

Sound Department
Maximiliano Gorriti	....	supervising sound mixer
Natxo Ortúzar	....	sound (as Nacho Ortuzar)
Pablo Sala	....	sound
Victoria Zalokar	....	sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Miquel Auguet	....	second assistant camera
Juan Gonzalez Guerrero	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
Jorge Ortiz Yus	....	colorist

Other crew
Ricky Margolis	....	international marketing: Filmax Entertainment
Alberto Marini	....	development executive
Manuel Monzón Fueyo	....	development executive
Helena Moreno Núñez	....	development executive
Elena Serra	....	development executive

Production Companies

• El Terrat
• Filmax

Distributors

• Cinemien (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Homescreen (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Nachshon Films (2006) (Israel) (all media)
• Primer Plano Film Group S.A. (2006) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Tour de Force (2007) (Norway) (theatrical)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2006) (Argentina) (VHS)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2007) (Germany) (DVD)

Runtime:

Spain:94 min

Country:

Spain | Argentina | Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Brazil:14 | Norway:11 | Brazil:12 | Netherlands:12 | Spain:7

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

El Terrat

Goofs:

Continuity: In the last scenes, Mao shows a tattoo on his chest and talks about it with almost religious fervor, so he has the tattoo from some time ago. However, Mao was previously seen naked to the waist (while he was training) and he had no tattoo on his chest.

Soundtrack:

Mensajes

Relations in different formats

This is a film that shows the different love relations between common people in a neighbourhood around a Tapas-bar. The film keeps you tied to your seat, just wanting to see what's happening next, and takes you closer to people's feelings, and recapitulation of concepts in front of extreme situations that alter their reality. From the old lady who sells drugs in the Tapas-bar, afraid of loosing her husband. The owner of the bar, whose wife runs away tired of him, and he prefers to hide his new situation, the woman in the local shop, that lives on her own and keeps a relationship throughout internet but falls for a physical relation with a younger men, all spiced with a pinch of Spanish humour, reality and sadness. The cast is pretty good, the new talent Rubén Ochandiano, or consecrated actors such as Angel De Andrés López, Elvira Minguez or the Argentinian Alberto De Mendoza. All in all, it's a good taste of Spanish cinema, besides the world known imagination of Almodovar.