Eduardo Antuna Movies
- 2008
With an earnest narrative that suggests a lighter version of such man-against-the-system efforts as Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, Jose Antonio Quieros's drama Cenizas del cielo (Ashes from the Sky) stars Celso Bugallo as Federico, a gentleman who has spent the better part of thirty years living in a quaint, lyrical valley all but ruined by the presence of one element - the local nuclear power plant. After three decades of protesting the plant's presence in vain, he receives word of the Kyoto Agreement, a new law that may just play an instrumental role in closing the plant down. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gary Piquer, Celso Bugallo, (more)
The fifth feature of noted Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia, La Comunidad is a frenetic black comedy set in a decrepit old house in the center of Madrid. One of the house's new residents is Julia Garcia (Carmen Maura, whose performance won her a best actress award at the 2000 San Sebastian Film Festival), a real estate agent who has taken an apartment to revive her sagging marriage. One day, while engaging in some bedroom bliss, Julia and her unemployed husband Ricardo (Jesus Bonilla) are attacked by cockroaches that rain down on them through a crack in the ceiling. During a subsequent investigation of the upstairs apartment, firemen discover a man's rotting corpse. Julia later conducts her own investigation of the apartment and discovers almost 15 million dollars hidden away under the floor boards -- the result of a soccer-pool win by the apartment's dead owner. She decides to take the winnings and run, but while removing the cash, meets her neighbor Ramona (Terele Pavez), who quickly becomes suspicious of Julia's activities. It turns out that everyone in the building knew about the money and agreed to share it amongst themselves, a plan severely compromised by Julia's desire to keep the money for herself. After inviting Julia to a welcome party held by the residents' association, her neighbors go to extreme lengths to get the money, and plenty of cartoon-colored murder and mayhem ensues. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, (more)
- 1999
- NR
A simple woman achieves fame and fortune without realizing she's made herself a laughingstock in the satiric comedy Mama Es Boba. Gema (Faustina Camacho) and Toribio (Eduardo Antuna) are a poor and not especially bright couple who live in the Spanish provinces. Gema works as a scrubwoman, while Toribio is out of a job. When a pair of financiers, Ana (Cristina Marcos) and Enrique (Gines Garcia Millan), open a TV station in the small town Gema calls home, they encounter her and get the idea it would be hilarious to have this obvious dullard reading the news each night. Gema takes the job, and not realizing she's the butt of a massive joke, thinks she's become a great success in television; her son Martin (Jose Luis Lago), however, is sharp enough to know she's making a fool of herself, and this gives the local bullies even more ammunition to use against him. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jose Luis Lago, Faustina Camacho, (more)
