Ocho apellidos vascos
Ocho Apellidos Vascos English Eight Basque Surnames, known as Spanish Affair in English, is a 2014 Spanish comedy film directed by Emilio MartnezLzaro. It premiered in Spain on March 14, 2014. Six weeks after its release, it became the second biggest box office hit ever in Spain, behind Avatar.
The weekend of its premiere, the film gathered an audience of 404,020 which resulted in box office grossing of 2.72 million euros. On its second weekend its grossing increased by 56, third best behind The Impossible and Avatar in its first ten days with a total 4.4 million euros. By April it became the most watched Spanish film in Spain with more than 6.5 million viewers and the second film with the greatest box office grossing in Spain, only behind Avatar, with a boxoffice of more than 45 million euros more than 62 millon dollars. It has grossed US77 million in Spain and a total of US78.7 million internationally.The critics were divided about the film, but were mostly positive. For magazine Cinemana, Carlos Maran stressed that the movie was extremely funny . This comment was repeated in many reviews that highlighted the film is funny, and for some, inspired and bright. Federico Marin Bellon journalist of ABC, spoke of a brave and timely movie, highlighting another aspect, the opportunity of its theme, which has also been emphasized by most critics who often compared it to the French film Welcome to the Sticks. For El Pas, Borja Valero even predicted it could be the movie of the year. ........
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