Black comedy is a complete genre because there is death at the end and at the end. Y coming back from the dead is very good, but not so much from the dead. In any case, he has great films that have taken advantage of such a lucrative title.
To quote the great classics, that But… Did he meet Harry? (1955), Hitchcock created a dark comedy based on the journey of a dead body, which turned into a logistical problem because what was “important” in itself, the death of a person, seemed to matter a lot. Finally, a critique of social indifference and the own futility of life.
The chorus says it: el muerto al hoyo y el vivo, al stamp. En Death Quintet (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955), the “moral force” of an elderly chapada in an ancient country that causes a matando gang of criminal thugs to be brought into their midst. You share in the laughs, but it doesn’t have to be a tragedy.
Ghost of my wifea new comedy by María Ripoll, Pisa the whole country: turning an assassin into a local comedy. Sometimes it follows, sometimes it doesn’t.
A muerta muy viva
The story runs into problems when Julia (María Hervás) had the most random (más bien menos) girlfriend after an affair with her lover’s (Loreto Mauleón) wife. Subsequently, he decides to hide the corpse and involves his new friend (Javier Rey), horrified by the death of his wife, but an accomplice.
It gets complicated when the woman gets ready and poor Javier Rey, who thinks she’s dead, gives her patatús. The movie is called Ghost of my wife and the best thing about the story is that the film is set in a narrative context – where does the woman go from here to where she is dead? – and it cannot be solved well enough.
Starting from here, the film constantly unfolds through the most eloquent turns of speech and presents a world that for moments resembles Ibáñez’s comicsmedium realist, medium caricature, in which there are also quite stupid politicians.
María Ripoll keeps the pulse behind the camera. En su haber, a sensible film that goes against the grain you live in 65′ (2006) and many comedies, some better than others, as his vision always imparts a certain charm and ingenuity as Now or never (2015) or Live twice (2019).
En Ghost of my wife, the packaging works; not so much tone. The police often seem to miss stupid people; In general cases of cooperation with the pharmaceutical lover of the protagonist (Hervás), who acts like a psychopath from the first minute. The story is complete and has some nice moments in the film – Rey’s paranoia about his wife’s “resurrection” – but Other times, the viewer is prompted to enter a code that is not entirely well-armed..
The crisis of marriage, the disintegration of love, are the underlying latent theme (the woman was “invisible” before I thought she killed her) and everything comes together in an alliance with female empoderamiento. The problem is actually that death exists in reality and For black humor to work thoroughly—and it’s radically difficult—death has to matter a little.
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