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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Efish Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Efish Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary On a hot day in July 1987, in a vacant Madrid, Miguel, a feared and respected senior newspaper writer, sets up a meeting in a café with Ángela, a young first-year journalism student. From the first instant, there develops between them an unevenly matched duel that encircles desire, inspiration, talent and professional perspectives. Force...

Directed By: David Trueba

Written By: Rafael Azcona, Pío Baroja, Fernando Fernán Gómez, James Joyce, Josep Pla, Georges Simenon, Francisco Umbral, Manuel Vicent, David Trueba

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Efish Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Efish Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Madrid, 1987

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary On a hot day in July 1987, in a vacant Madrid, Miguel, a feared and respected senior newspaper writer, sets up a meeting in a café with Ángela, a young first-year journalism student. From the first instant, there develops between them an unevenly matched duel that encircles desire, inspiration, talent and professional perspectives. Force...

Directed By: David Trueba

Written By: Rafael Azcona, Pío Baroja, Fernando Fernán Gómez, James Joyce, Josep Pla, Georges Simenon, Francisco Umbral, Manuel Vicent, David Trueba

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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88
Oct 19, 2012
Madrid, 1987 operates on a dizzying number of levels - as a romantic comedy, a sex farce, a study of culture clash, ageism and idealism - and the highest compliment you can give this ridiculously talky movie (which plays better if you speak Spanish) is that you're a little sad to see the characters go on their way once they part, probably forever.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 10, 2012
Miguel uses her beauty and placid demeanor as a screen against which to project his memories of past adventures and the ghost of his libido.
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70
Oct 10, 2012
A perceptive, ultra-wordy stab at catching the zeitgeist at a time of change in Spain, David Trueba's two-hander nonetheless feels like a working-out of social and personal themes that hasn't quite achieved the full leap from page to film.
By Jonathan Holland FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 10, 2012
An engrossing two-hander combining the smart-talk microcosm of "My Dinner With Andre" and the sexual dynamics of a Philip Roth novel, David Trueba's Madrid, 1987 is more universal than its title suggests and holds a strong art house appeal.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 25, 2012
Deserves commendation for its fearless bravado, if for little else. [25 Oct 2012]
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50
Oct 25, 2012
The actors give their characters a resonance beyond the symbolic, but the action doesn't quite transcend the stagy setup.
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40
Oct 12, 2012
Sweet, sometimes dull and certainly overlong.
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Production Company Buenavida Producciones S.L.
Release Date Oct 12, 2012
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Sant Jordi Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
José María Forqué Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Miami Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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