Living It Up - Just a Weekly Millionaire
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Living It Up - Just a Weekly Millionaire |
| Original title | La gran vida |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Antonio Cuadri |
| script |
Carlos Asorey Fernando León de Aranoa |
| production | Aldo Spagnoli |
| music | Manuel Villalta |
| camera | Néstor Calvo |
| cut | Guillermo Represa |
| occupation | |
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Living It Up (Original title: La gran vida) is a Spanish comedy film from 2000 . Directed by Antonio Cuadri , the screenplay was written by Carlos Asorey and Fernando León de Aranoa .
action
Martin works as a bus driver for a Madrid transport company. He is frustrated and wants to commit suicide. When he wants to throw himself off a bridge, Salva speaks to him and advises him to let it go for a little while and to borrow a large sum of money from the mafia, for which Martin could live a week as a millionaire. Martin accepts the advice and Salva acts as his accountant.
At first everything goes well until Martin meets the Mexican waitress Lola at a party and falls in love with her. Martin draws new courage to live and gives up his suicidal intentions. However, since he cannot repay the requested amount, he becomes increasingly paranoid and flees from the supposed mafiosi. Meanwhile, Lola also falls in love with Martin, after she only wanted to hook up with him in order to steal from him. She intended to care for her sick sister, who survived a suicide attempt with serious injuries. Salva tells Martin about Lola's fraudulent intentions and gives him an opportunity to escape from the Mafia abroad. But instead of fleeing, Martin decides to confront Lola. This frankly admits that she wanted to bring Martin out of his money, who then leaves the apartment disappointed. Having become suspicious, he secretly observes and follows Salva and realizes that Salva is also a mafioso. He wanted to use Martin to launder a larger sum of money: He had to make sure that Martin only spent the money made available to him in shops controlled by the Mafia. So the money was laundered unobtrusively. Martin returns to Lola and they both decide to start over.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a " sympathetic black comedy whose theme (...) is now (...) no longer particularly original ". However, he entertains " thanks to good actors ".
Awards
Carmelo Gómez was nominated for the Fotogramas de Plata Prize in 2001.
background
The film opened in Spanish cinemas on October 11, 2000 and grossed around 1.4 million euros there. In Germany it was released on video in November 2001.
Web links
- Living It Up - Just a week millionaire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Living It Up - Just a week millionaire at Rotten Tomatoes (English)