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The Weasel's Tale

Released Dec 11, 2020 2h 9m Comedy Drama TRAILER for List
92% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 81% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A retired actress from the golden age of Argentine cinema shares a mansion with her husband, a screenwriter and a director. They will do anything to preserve the world they created for themselves.
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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Juan Jose Campanella's update of a 1976 black comedy is a tasty bon bon, ideally paired with bubbly as you giggle at the conniving oldsters getting back at the young 'uns trying to rob them. Rated: 3/4 Dec 31, 2020 Full Review Nicolas Rapold New York Times Schemers meet their match in "The Weasels' Tale," Juan José Campanella's crowd-pleasing Argentine comedy. Dec 10, 2020 Full Review Jonathan Holland Hollywood Reporter A slickly calibrated, classically structured dark comedy that again highlights Juan Jose Campanella's skill at pressing his viewers' buttons across a range of genres. Jul 24, 2019 Full Review Denise Pieniazek Puesta en Escena (AR) Juan José Campanella returns to the big screen with El Cuento De Las Comadrejas, which is a remake of another Argentine film, the endearing The Boys from Before Didn't Use Arsenic directed by José Martínez Suárez. Rated: 8/10 Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Taylor Baker Drink in the Movies Campanella after all is an aging artist, telling a personal story in a genre he knows all too well. Rated: 78/100 Aug 19, 2021 Full Review David Bax Battleship Pretension At over two hours, it sometimes drags but there's always an assurance that the next scene could be one of the movie's many great ones.. Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Herbert T Another great one from Campanella! Incredible cast. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/24/24 Full Review Mary C I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The interaction and dialog of the characters moved the story along beautifully. Wonderful casting. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/10/21 Full Review brent m When two millennial con artists take on four movie industry veterans past their prime, the plot thickens as everyone tries to outhustle one another. It doesn't matter that the once-famous cinema idols are essentially financially destitute and live on a decrepit estate that's falling apart and overrun by the local wildlife -- everybody's still out to look after himself or herself first. This deliciously devious dark comedy is filled with devilish twists and turns, nicely seasoned with snappy writing, creative photographic effects, superbly campy performances, a spot-on soundtrack and a story line where art imitates life (and vice versa). Director Juan Jose Campanella's latest sizzles throughout, nicely paced and crisp in virtually every frame, including those that slyly poke fun at the movie industry through the picture's narrative. A hilarious morality play that's a genuine joy from start to finish. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review ralph d It was as good a movie as I've seen in months. It was a really, really good dark comedy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Directed by prolific Argentinian filmmaker Juan José Campanella (from the Oscar winning thriller "The Secret In Their Eyes"), this delectable golden age homage follows the troubles faced by a trio of elderly artists formed by a famous grand dame of the cinema, her screenwriter husband and the director who worked with them. They share a mansion and lifelong stories of fame, awards, success, collaborations, as well as ups and downs, until they are targeted by two real estate agents viewing to buy the property. Blending mystery, crime farce, comedy and drama, Campanella conducts the material with vivid spontaneity and sharp sarcasm. The trio of actors are superbly displaying their comic skills, including Graciela Borges as the delusional actress, astonishingly embodying vanity, glamour and a unique sense of being utterly satisfied at certain circumstance and age, the always fantastic and compelling Óscar Martínez as the perceptive director and Luis Brandoni as her wheelchair confined husband. There are also highly emotional moments taking place throughout the debauchery and troublemaking scenario, subtly moving observations on aging and being forgotten after stardom, the importance of true friendship and loyalty, and what movie magic represents for its lovers, particularly one sequence where the actress' face is enlightened by the projection of her young version, changing the tone in the narrative, as an opportunity for its characters to find in memories a way of healing traumas, unsolved matters from the past, forgiving one another and how an accident changed the course of their lives. An admirably well-done intersection between "Sunset Boulevard" and "Knives Out", it is a delightfully funny, investigative classic formula cinema-homage filled with grace and cynicism at both levels and unexpected twists. (Outsider Pictures. 12/11. In Theaters and Virtual Cinemas.) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A retired actress from the golden age of Argentine cinema shares a mansion with her husband, a screenwriter and a director. They will do anything to preserve the world they created for themselves.
Director
Juan José Campanella
Distributor
Outsider Pictures
Production Co
100 Bares, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 11, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 19, 2021
Runtime
2h 9m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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