Rey gitano (2015)

Name: Rey gitano
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2015-07-17
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 4.2
Cast: Manuel Manquiña, Karra Elejalde, Arturo Valls, María León, Rosa María Sardà

Rey gitano (2015), directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, starring Manuel Manquiña and Karra Elejalde.

07/17/2015 BR Comedy 1h 52m

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Synopsis

Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.

Juanma Bajo UlloaDirector, Producer, Writer
Javier Martín PenagosEditing
Dylan MorenoProducer

About the film

Gipsy King (Spanish: Rey gitano) is a 2015 Spanish comedy road movie written and directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa. The cast features Manuel Manquiña, Karra Elejalde, Arturo Valls, María León, Rosa María Sardá, Charo López, Pilar Bardem and Albert Pla.

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Plot

Two failed and unemployed investigators, Primitivo and Jose Mari (caricatures of the so-called Two Spains), meet up with Gaje, a gypsy scoundrel, pretending to be a bastard son of the King of Spain. They travel throughout Spain to fulfill the mission tasked by Gaje, set on becoming king.

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Production

The film is a RH Cinema and Frágil Zinema production. Shooting began in July 2014 in Vitoria-Gasteiz and surrounding locations of Álava, moving then to Madrid, wrapping in the province of Málaga (including Málaga and Genalguacil) already by September 2014.

Release

Distributed by eOne Films Spain, Gipsy King was theatrically released in Spain on 17 July 2015.

Reception

Pere Vall of Fotogramas gave a 2 out of 5 stars score, pointing out at an editing full of loopholes, a clutter of badly executed climaxes, overacted performances, otherwise drawing out Arturo Valls' performance from those by the rest of the cast as a positive point.

Carlos Marañón of Cinemanía rated the film 3½ out of 5 stars, writing about the "supreme" performances by Elejalde and Manquiña, nailing what is expected of them, "perverting idioms to the point of paroxysm".

Javier Ocaña of El País considered the film's problem to be that, except for the sequences featuring Karra Elejalde and Manuel Manquiña (uplifted by a "stupendous" writing by Bajo Ulloa), "almost nothing works", due to the lack of genius and—boldness notwithstanding—for being "much less audacious than it appears on the surface".

M.J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla noted that while the plot premise could be somewhat amusing and that bringing in a duo of investigators performed by Manquiña and Elejalde was not a bad idea, "almost nothing else works organically in this redundant and cumulative road movie".

References

Text from Gipsy King on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_King

Trivia

It premiered on July 17, 2015, a Friday.
It runs 1h52 — a typical feature length.
This film's quiz has 8 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosFrágil Zinema, RH Cinema
CountriesSpain
LanguagesSpanish
StatusReleased

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Juanma Bajo Ulloa Director
Javier Martín Penagos Editing
Dylan Moreno Producer
Juanma Bajo Ulloa Producer
Juanma Bajo Ulloa Writer

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What is Rey gitano about?

Rey gitano: Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.

Who directed Rey gitano?

Rey gitano was directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa in 2015.

Who stars in Rey gitano?

The cast of Rey gitano includes Manuel Manquiña, Karra Elejalde, Arturo Valls, María León and Rosa María Sardà.

How long is Rey gitano?

Rey gitano runs for 112 minutes, or 1h52.