Acid movie portraying of a disintegrating marriage , turning out to be a riotous mix of dark comic tone , and , crime story with dramatic elements. Petra (Pilar Bardem) and Matías (Jose Sacristán) have been married for twenty years . She is a cellist and fond of spiritualism along with her friends who often use their house to celebrate spiritualist aquelarres . While Matias works at the medical school as an autopsy janitor . If at the beginning allegedly lived happily as a married couple ; some years later things go wrong . But several years after , things are so far away to be idyllic : Matias has been turned in a pallid man worried about his marriage and job supporting his longtime friend and colleague Luis (Agustín González) , a necroliphic anatomy professor . After a lot of years of marital bless , they begin their particular world war , as out of circumstance , both are living an infernal life in their Madrid apartment . Their differences finally caught with them after several years , and they ended up in a bitter confrontation , resulting to be really violent and extremely destructive . Both of them share a love for exquisite possessions and both want to stay in the house , and so they begin a campaign to eliminate each other to leave it . In the middle of the fighting is the sympathetic Angelines (María Barranco) , a Corte Inglés shop assistant with whom Matias falls in love . Under those circumstances, the couple is bound for an unnecessary , yet explosive and utterly catastrophic head-to-head collision, in a no-holds-barred civil war between sexes . He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other , and boy do they go far . So Petra discussions with Matías are common , although she takes great care of her never to raise her voice to him . Matías , however, does not care what people will say about their noisy arguments and screams unceremoniously . The neighbors , who are gossipy , are aware of everything that happens in that flat . But Matías falls madly in love and he has the ideal job to get rid of his wife who's unwilling to give up the house in the separation settlement . Both of whom rising level of hate between them and increasing an unstoppable escalation of violence and crime . Without a doubt , theirs is a sad story, however , is there any marriage destined to succeed?.
A decent and sour film with wicked and wince-inducting humour as well as sadistic roles , being supported on a disconcerting premise , a marriage war resulting in fateful consequences . Bemusing and fun film in ¨Robert Zemeckis' War of the Roses¨ style with nice performances , hilarious scenes and dramatic happenings . An amusing , diverting film , but some downbeat movie , about an unlucky married couple , as their love is gone and they try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious battle and as a result the couple is extremely embittered and determined to let all these years go down . Interesting and twisted script from Javier García Maurino , Fernando Morales , Fernando Fernán Gómez himself and Luis Alcoriza who was Luis Buñuel's screenwriter , in fact the movie is dedicated to his memory . Stars José Sacristán who gives a nice acting as the abusive husband who works as a janitor in the autopsy room of Medicine University and phenomenal Pilar Bardem as Petra , a sour and uncompromising character . Support cast is frankly well with plenty of familiar faces , such as : Chus Lampreave, Agustín González, Tina Sáinz , Francisco Casares , Pedro Beltrán , Mercedes Gamero , Saturnino Garcia , among others.
It displays an atmospheric and evocative musical score by Pablo Trujillo. As well as atmospheric and adequate cinematography by
Hans Burmann , being shot in Madrid and surroundings : Pozuelo de Alarcón . Adding an evocative musical score by Mariano Díaz . The motion picture was professionally directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez , with originality and tension enough . Competently written and shot by Fernando Fernan Gómez, considered to be one of his best ones . He has written comedies, novels and poem books. Fernando plays a wide repertoire of roles from comedy to drama. One of Spain's most beloved entertainers, best known to American filmgoers for playing the father in the Oscar-winning foreign film Belle Epoque (1992). And directing notorious films , such as : Siete mil días juntos (1994) was Winner : Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival 1995 Best Director Fernando Fernán Gómez . His first film as a director was Maniconio , following El malvado Carabel , La Vida pot delante , El Mundo sigue , la Venganza de Don Mendo , Ninette y un señor de Murcia , Mayores con reparos , Crimen imperfecto, Mi hija Hildegart , 5 tenedores , Mambru se fue a la Guerra , El mar y el tiempo , Siete mil días juntos , Pesadilla para un rico and the cult movie : ¨El Extraño Viaje¨ that along with ¨El Viaje a ninguna Parte¨ are deemed to be his masterpieces . Along with Icíar Bollaín, he's the only person to have been nominated as performer (El abuelo (1998), director (El viaje a ninguna parte (1986) and writer (Lázaro de Tormes (2001) for three diferent movies at the Goya awards. He actually won in every category at least once. Rating Siete mil días juntos (1994) : Above average . Essential and indispensable watching for Spanish cinema fans .
