Actrius

Actresses Catalan Actrius is a 1997 Catalan language Spanish drama film produced and directed by Ventura Pons based upon the awardwinning stage play E.R. by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet. The film has no male actors, with all roles played by females. The film was produced in 1996.

Actrius screened in 2001 at the Graumans Egyptian Theatre in a American Cinematheque retrospective of the works of its director. The film had first screened at the same location in 1998. It was also shown at the 1997 Stockholm International Film Festival.In Movie Film Review, Daily Mail staffer Christopher Tookey wrote that though the actresses were competent in roles that may have some reference to their own careers, the film is visually unimaginative, never escapes its stage origins, and is almost totally lacking in revelation or surprising incident. Noting that there were occasional, refreshing moments of intergenerational bitchiness, they did not justify comparisons to All About Eve, and were insufficiently different to deserve critical parallels with Rashomon. He also wrote that The Guardian called the film a slow, stuffy chamberpiece, and that The Evening Standard stated the films best moments exhibit the bitchy tantrums seething beneath the threesomes composed veneers. MRQE wrote This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story. ........

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