The Weasel's Tale

The Weasel's Tale (Spanish: El cuento de las comadrejas) is a 2019 Argentine black comedy film directed by Juan José Campanella. The film premiered on 16 May 2019,[2] and later showed at the 2020 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.[3]

The Weasel's Tale
Directed byJuan José Campanella
Written byJuan Jose Campanella
Augusto Giustozzi
Darren Kloomok
Jose A. Martinez Suarez
Produced byJuan Jose Campanella
Gerardo Herrero
Axel Kuschevatzky
StarringLuis Brandoni
Graciela Borges
Edited byJuan Jose Campanella
Music byEmilio Kauderer
Production
companies
100 Bares
Tornasol
Jempsa
Release date
  • 16 May 2019 (2019-05-16)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
Box office2.641 million[1]

Plot

A former diva, Mara, shares a remote mansion with her husband, Pedro and two other celebrities with which she used to make films with; Norberto, a director, and his screenwriter Martín. Everything was fine in the mansion, until a suspicious slick city couple shows up to buy the property.

Cast

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 92% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10.[4]

Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times called The Weasel's Tale "crowd-pleasing",[5] while Jonathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter said that "Though the new film is tonally completely different [from the Secret in Their Eyes], something similar happens in Weasel Tale's climactic and frankly absurd end scene".[6]

According to Paula Marinkovic of The Dartmouth, "The Weasel's Tale is a nostalgic exploration of the pain and loss of one's sense of self that accompanies declining success.[7]

The South China Morning Post's James Marsh described the film as "[a]n ageing starlet of cinema's golden age is targeted by a pair of opportunistic property developers in [director's] riotously entertaining caper, a loving evocation of Sunset Boulevard and classic Ealing comedies".[8]

Argentine-based La Nación said that "It is that strange game between horror and devotion, which links cinema and eternal life, that [the film] skillfully captures in its first scenes".[9]

Other critics criticized the film. Carlos Boyero of El País said that "The fable is as apparent as hollow"[10] while Desirée De Fez of Fotogramas commented that "[d]espite its charm, the film reduces its potential to a really simple conflict".[11]

References
  1. "The Weasel's Tale". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  2. ""El cuento de las comadrejas" es mucho más que un remake". Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  3. Sendrós, Paraná (16 May 2019). "The Weasel's Tal". Ámbito Financiero. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  4. "The Weasel's Tale". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. Rapold, Nicolas (10 December 2020). "The Weasel's Tale Review: House Hunting". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  6. Holland, Jonathan (23 July 2019). "'The Weasel's Tale' ('El Cuento de las Comadrejas'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  7. "Review: 'The Weasel's Tale' offers plot twists and dark comedy". The Dartmouth. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  8. Marsh, James (9 July 2020). "The Weasel's Tale film review: Argentine dark comedy by The Secret in Their Eyes director is riotously entertaining". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  9. Prieto, Paula Vázquez (16 May 2019). "El cuento de las comadrejas: una comedia con más homenajes que hilaridad". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  10. Boyero, Carlos (12 July 2019). "Qué bien hablan, qué agotadores". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  11. De Fez, Desirée (12 July 2019). "CRÍTICA DE 'EL CUENTO DE LAS COMADREJAS'". Fotogramas (in Spanish).
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